Ms Geraldine Tallon:

The process would be that having signalled it as a crosscutting issue in his activity report in 2011, the local government auditor would have asked the auditor for each local authority area to probe a bit deeper in their 2012 audits.

I would expect, therefore, to see further commentary from the local government auditor arising from the 2012 audits. In the meantime, it is one of the issues I intend to raise at our next meeting with the executive of the County and City Managers Association. Those meetings take place on a fairly frequent basis, and the next one will be the first since the activity report was published. The issues that were identified in the report will be raised in that context, and managers will be asked to follow up in their own areas.