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

No endeavour. I am asking for the information. If Mr. Ryan or the Revenue Commissioners asked me for my accounts from 2007, I would have to produce them. I am asking Mr. Ryan, on behalf of the taxpayer, to produce his analysis of that strategic plan, which allowed an organisation double its borrowings. That is all I want. The Department has a responsibility to answer that question. It is not Mr. Ryan’s Department in this case but the previous Department. There has to be some link to it. I will ask the clerk to write on behalf of the committee to the Accounting Officer in that Department as well as asking Mr. Ryan to try to get this information. It is critical to how this has unfolded.

During the time of Mr. Nealon’s tenure of office there was no financial officer. Is that right?