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

If the Secretary General was to go into a credit union or a bank and tell them he had a business plan up to 2016 and ask them for a loan, they would not give him one, yet we are giving away taxpayers' money to a huge entity that has so far gobbled up money in terms of consultants' reports and payments about which there are huge questions in terms of its efficiency. Today, as we look to 2016 and beyond, there is no definite certainty as to where we are going with this. All the talk about the CER, NewERA and everything else does not clarify the matter sufficiently enough for the taxpayer to understand where we are going or to what is being committed. I call Deputy McFadden.