A senior civil servant said he accepted the Auditor General's criticisms over the process Government chose to deliver the over-budget Transport Control Department construction project.Former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Transportation, Marc Telemaque, told the Public Accounts Committee yesterday with hindsight there were some things he would do differently.In 2010 Auditor General Heather Jacobs Matthews released a special report in to the motor vehicle safety and emissions testing programme at TCD.She reported a “lack of accountability and a general disregard for established policies and procedures in the use of public funds”.She discovered that responsibility for the project was given to the Ministry of Transport, rather than Works and Engineering, as it should have been, and that there was ministerial interference from the outset. The cost of the development eventually tripled from $5.3 million to $15.2 million after control was “relinquished” to two linked private companies and Ms Matthews found there was inadequate documentation to explain the increases.She noted that the company contracted to manage the building project Bermuda Emissions Control Ltd (BECL) subcontracted work to build two satellite emissions facilities to Correia Construction Company Ltd (CCCL) without senior civil servants ensuring it was put out to tender.Ms Jacobs noted an “inherent conflict of interest” between BECL and CCL as both were 30 percent owned by the same individual, Dennis Correia.Yesterday Mr Telemaque said he accepted the criticism of the process that was used and accepted the finding that no independent information as to the costs of the project was sought. When asked to explain why the amount in the Budget book was the same as figures submitted by CCCL he said he could not.But he added: “The import of the question is to suggest that money is going walkabout and that is not suggested in the report. I think what the Auditor General said was it was not independent and therefore cannot assume there was value for money.”When asked by Chairman Bob Richards if he would have done anything differently with hindsight, he replied: “I accept that there are some things I would do differently.”He did not say what he would do differently but added following the correct process “would have ultimately been very slow and the important work today would have to close because it is raining”. When asked if be believed tax payers got value for money Mr Telemaque paused before saying: “That is a difficult question, the determination of value for money when dealing with capital projects does not appear to be an accounting exercise.”