John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

If there is no problem with the procurement, as the Comptroller and Auditor General has said, we should be wary about this. Maybe it is a simplistic way of putting this, but if there was a tender for firearms for An Garda Síochána and they were used, hypothetically, in an illegal shooting, would the Committee of Public Accounts be getting involved in the tender for those firearms? I think we are bringing it a bit too far. It technically could be within our remit because it is public money, but we are straying into an area that has more to do with politics than to do value for money.