Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I differ from the views of Deputy Fleming who said earlier that he felt that PLI was going backwards. I think the initiatives are technologically advanced and I wish PLI well. There have been outages, not just those of 3 and 4 February. Is there any common thread between the three outages? Did PLI learn from the first outage and did it affect how it dealt with the second and third? I am more concerned about its relationships and I am even more concerned now that Mr. Griffin explained to me that all of the staff are exactly the same. The continuity of the relationship that existed with the retailers for the past 20-odd years should be the same or better yet it is considerably worse. The previous delegation that appeared before the committee earlier today made some extremely strong statements which were very serious but ill-founded. When the speakers were pressed on why they made those statements, they suggested that they did not mean what the statements said they meant but that they had a gut feeling in their bellies. Something serious has happened and the relationship has deteriorated in the past 12 months, notwithstanding the long list of events and initiatives Mr. Griffin said PLI organised.