John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

For the Department to be happy about this, it would have relied on the Comptroller and Auditor General's report, which flagged a few issues here and there in the years prior to 2007 and on the internal audits of the Departments that had responsibility for the harbour centres. The Department was not told anything about this.