Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

No offence, but is that not very sloppy? Ms Graham has clarified one point for me. By March 2013 - last March - we knew we were looking at €50 million, albeit a ceiling, in respect of outside consultancy. The Department went to the trouble of communicating with the organisation to get clarification vis-à-visflexibilities and so on. Ms Graham understands that this is a ceiling amount; this is what she is telling us. It is all entirely reasonable from her point of view, but she stated that subsequently the Department satisfied itself with the global figure. Would it not have gone back and asked whether the figure turned out to be a ceiling?