Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

The Taoiseach does not have the information before him because there is none. As Minister for Finance and in his current position, the Taoiseach presided over huge levels of waste and cost inflation in public spending and a failed value for money strategy without even the smallest of reforms. The discussion that has been ongoing in the public domain over the past several weeks about bank time and the cashing of pay checks, which are paid electronically, should have taken place in 2002 and 2005. Was that issue raised in the context of the benchmarking awards paid to the civil servants in his Department?

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