Eoghan Murphy (Dublin South East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I do not wish to delay the meeting but Poolbeg has come across our desk again. We have received more information and more details this time. The total spend is now looking at €96 million. I said at a previous meeting that over €600,000 will be spent between now and June this year alone and this situation is continuing. We cannot deal with it at this meeting. I think the committee needs to make a move on this to put it on the agenda and also to ensure that we can investigate it properly, not just with the Secretary General of the Department but with any of the relevant officials. Perhaps the Chairman has suggestions as to how we can proceed in order to get Poolbeg properly on the agenda. I know the committee is prevented from following some of the spend at the moment because it goes through local government. I do not know if the committee can change its terms of reference for one particular piece of work or change the committee's terms of reference more generally, if we can see a way to do a proper investigation. The spend continues and over a decade nothing has been built. The situation is just going on and on at this stage.