John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)

I will finish now. We should ensure that whatever resources are needed by the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Committee of Public Accounts should be agreed to, within reason, because we are under a lot of pressure to get out reports, deal with Accounting Officers, and so on. Resources are needed. There is also a need to ensure that Accounting Officers, right across the board, reply in a timely fashion to the Committee of Public Accounts in terms of the information required of them. These are all steps that can be achieved and are simple reforms that would make an enormous difference to our work.

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