Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

We are making progress. We have an asset management unit. We have established a system whereby it is not possible to procure something without putting it on the asset management register. We have a legacy issue in that we have a very large Department with, for example, a lot of equipment that is fully depreciated on the account but perfectly functioning. We have an audit system where we compare the asset register to the assets we find. We have an ongoing programme of labelling assets to the extent that we found gaps between the register and what is present in some places. It tends to be that perhaps a piece of equipment has been moved from one place to another without notifying the register. These are things we now recognise as issues and we are trying to resolve them. We think we are making significant progress and we have established structures within the Department to do that.