Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

Yes.

As for a lot of the information that is presented, you can see they have been able to rectify it and bring it into compliance by running a tendering competition that complies with what is required relative to the scale of the spend envisaged. We have been keeping a focus on this and we draw attention to it wherever the non-compliant procurement expenditure exceeds €500,000. It is constant and there has to be constant focus on this. Since the committee has expressed an interest in this, many organisations are now appointing specialist procurement officers and there is more professionalism and process coming into the system, which is a good thing.