Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Department of Health leads the negotiations. Would the Assistant Secretary General have joined the Civil Service as an executive officer and worked his way up to Assistant Secretary General, and not through commercial experience? I do not need the person's name. This is not personal. From my point of view, this is going from bad to worse. We have a career civil servant negotiating a bill of approximately €2 billion, and he does not even get to talk to the people whose product he is buying.