Gerald Nash (Louth, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I welcome Ms McGrath and her colleagues from the Office of Public Works. In the first instance, I wish to raise a matter which is not necessarily germane to the appropriation account for 2011. In that context, I want to focus on the correspondence received from the Office of Public Works, dated 16 May, in respect of the cost of the provision of a suite of offices for the then Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, and current Chairman of this committee, Deputy McGuinness. I thank Ms McGrath for her subsequent correspondence clarifying the correspondence from 16 May. At this point the Chairman may wish to consider whether it is appropriate for him to remain in situ for this part of the meeting.