Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein)

It cost €8,460 but there was no added cost because the mistake was at the supplier’s end. I suppose that answers the question.

Obviously, there are wider questions on Government spending. These questions, concerning bike sheds, IT systems and the Revenue bill in the Minister’s Department, have almost been done to death here. We must spend public money wisely and have more checks and balances than existed in the past.

I am very glad nobody in the Department was responsible for the signage error. I would not like to have been responsible myself. Obviously, we are talking about something that is costly. I can work on the basis that the Minister sent the printer the correct name and it printed it incorrectly. It was rather costly for it. Could the Minister speak about the due diligence needed to ensure less public waste than we have seen previously?

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