Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

Right across the system there has been an enormous number of changes in how contracts are procured and how work is done. On legislation, there is the infrastructural Bill, which will speed up some of the issues. As far as the accountability and control of public expenditure is concerned, in the past few years there have been significant changes in addition to the recommendations made by the Comptroller and Auditor General, which are always implemented immediately.

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