Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

Absolutely and this is something we examine every year in the HSE audit. For the past few years we have encouraged it to write more about it in the statement on internal financial control. There is a fairly comprehensive piece of work that would be a focus every year for the committee to examine. We are considering our programme for 2017 and going forward and we will consider the health sector as a whole to decide what areas to examine and report on specifically in 2017 and in later years. If it was an agreed view of the committee that we should examine that I would take that very seriously but I have limited resources. We have already talked about capital projects and that is one of the things I wanted to consider this year. There are issues around drug procurement that I want to examine. I want to look into the fair deal scheme and the collection of debts due and the control of that. There is no shortage of issues to consider. I will prioritise, as is my prerogative, but I would certainly take very seriously a view of the committee expressed formally to me.

That is probably the best way to do that.