Mr. Brendan Rogers:

With reference to one of the issues pointed out by the Comptroller and Auditor General, I admit we should have been aware of that information intelligence sooner. We are on the ground talking to our donors and there are various rumours and views. We should be transmitting them more quickly to headquarters. That is what the dashboard system will do. However, we were picking up issues and we made a decision a few years ago that we should begin to move away somewhat from government systems. We were on that course and it was not a case of having to change the ship. We are now managing our major school-building programme in Karamoja for ourselves, using management agents. The schools are still needed by the system and they were to be built in the national system but we intend to build them ourselves and we will put an Irish flag on them. This was a major change of policy.