Eoghan Murphy (Dublin South East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Ms Tallon referred to direct accountability. It has been like pulling teeth out of officials for public representatives in this constituency because we have witnessed the finances escalating over a decade to more than €80 million with nothing being built. I will go through the client representative costs and the detailed breakdown Ms Tallon provided the committee a few months ago later. All the while officials both in the city council and the Department have acted like there was nothing wrong and nothing to investigate. The words Ms Tallon used the last time she appeared before the committee were, "There is nothing to investigate here", when, clearly, there was something to investigate. With regard to accountability, no public representative for the area is in favour of the project. I am interested that Ms Tallon invited the city manager in because my understanding was he did not report to her on this issue. Previously, when we discussed this, Ms Tallon said she had a member on the project executive board.