Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

One of the actions we took after the audit when the issues had come to light regarded circumstances in which public servants were involved in more than two agencies. We suggested to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform that claims for travel and subsistence should always be through the employer. If there was a basis for reclaiming those travel and subsistence expenses, we suggested that it be done agency to agency in order not to have a public servant claiming in two different places unknown to both sides. The Department issued a letter of instruction. Across the Civil Service now, that is the expectation.