Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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We will sign off on this shortly. We have a duty. We are here for value for money for the taxpayer. I suggest that if we bring in four or five ETBs that have problems, we could take a proactive role and tell ETBs that they need to lift their game. We are not asking them to do anything that is not achievable. It is not to give anyone a bualadh bos. It is to use one ETB to show the others that this is the way they should be doing things. It would be a success if the Committee of Public Accounts can make ETBs improve their situation and show them good practice. I take the view that we examine the practice of everything that goes wrong every day. There is some good practice. Some Government Departments work well. We have seen that Revenue and different Departments are fairly efficient in their statutory duty and we bring them in. We ask if other Departments can be as efficient. I use them as one example off the top of my head. The sole purpose was to say to the ETBs that their sister organisation, in the same position, is doing well and that other ETBs should learn how to do it properly. The only purpose is to show them that this can be done.