Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)

I will not do so. I ask the Minister whether the €900 million for the decentralisation programme was carefully assessed in the Department. Was the €52 million spent on e-voting carefully assessed in the Department, or the €160 million on PPARS? I could go on and list all the projects we see year in, year out in the reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General. Let us be honest with ourselves; the robust assessment that the Minister talks about does not occur. We need to make it happen, and this House is charged with that duty. The sooner these assessments are published and held up to public scrutiny, so that people are held accountable, the better for this country.

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