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

Can it be the practice in future that when the HSE has significant information that it circulates it to the committee in advance? The practice the HSE adopted on two occasions when it has been on live television has been to produce information for the first time for dramatic effect and causing public consternation while this committee has not had the opportunity to consider it calmly in advance. That is not good practice.

The letter to which I referred is about the CRC. It is clear it had it in its possession for a full seven days but it waited until it appeared here and was on live television to read it out and without showing us the courtesy of sending it to us in advance. I do not like the practice of some of these people using the Committee of Public Accounts as a platform for different agendas because the television cameras are on them.