Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

If the Deputy talks about tenders for ICT projects, we can absolutely track them; they are tracked. Tenders for large construction projects absolutely can be tracked. These are two of the largest types of projects and there are huge controls over those. There is ongoing monitoring and performance management around those. We absolutely can track all of those.

A lot of the other tenders we are talking about are tenders for the purchase of consumables, where we estimate the value that is being purchased and then we offer or make that contract available and the people buy off it. The control is whether they are operating within their budgets or not. In some cases, people would go over budget and that is a matter to be dealt with through the accountability and performance management process.

In the context of big contracts for systems, buildings or projects, yes, we do have visibility-----