Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Yes. It was because the Department sent it to the company, the parliamentary questions having come in the normal way, and they were not followed up by the company. The apology was on that basis. This is a public utility and as I said last week, it will be scrutinised by the Oireachtas and by civil society because it is subject to the freedom of information Act. That is the reason it was set up in the way it was set up and that is why that applies.

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