Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

We seek to ensure that within the governance structures of the organisation, it has systems to follow up on all recommendations made by its own internal audit. As we have put a great deal of focus on the procurement of goods and services, many organisations are getting better at this. They are getting better at understanding what they are buying, collating information for procurement and so on. Progress is being made. The one area where there is a systemic problem is the health sector. Relative to the total spend in many of the organisations, the spend to which we are drawing attention is not so great. Nevertheless, pressure needs to be maintained to avoid the problem becoming worse.