Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)

Okay, that is perfect. I really do appreciate that because we have had great success with many Departments in getting them to publish those figures. I am really hopeful to see that from the Department soon because the Department of children has been doing it to date, so we were able to garner a lot of information. The most frightening piece of information we gathered was that, over the last decade, the top 25 suppliers of accommodation to the Department of children and now to the Department of justice across 4,248 records, accounted for €2.073 billion worth of purchase orders and payments. The Department has to have serious negotiation power with them, so when these contracts come up for renegotiation the downward price pressure the Department should be able to apply to the contracts should be immense. We should see a drastic saving on these accommodation spots in the future, because we cannot see private interests continue to profit from a State crisis. The State needs to be able to respond. The Citywest purchase was the right thing to do because it shows that the State is going to tackle this issue in the long run and the speed at which applicants are being processed is accelerating. The fact that there are 80% refusals shows there is an issue.