Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

It is being dealt with, not by the cross-departmental team but by the Departments of Finance and Education and Science which have comprehensively answered the various recommendations that have been put in the 2007 interim report. The Departments have given their views. Obviously, that report is circulated to cross-departmental teams but it was dealt with by the Department of Education and Science which was doing the follow-on and the Department of Finance which did the total assessment of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report.

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