Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

Arising from the PPARS debacle last year, information I requested under the freedom of information legislation indicated that the Department of Finance, in the middle of last year, notified the Department of Health and Children that this practice must stop. If the Department of Finance was aware of it in respect of the PPARS fiasco in the middle of last year and notified the Department and Health and Children at that time that it must stop, how was this allowed to happen? The Department of Finance was well aware that capital moneys were being used for current expenditure.

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