Derek Nolan (Galway West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Two issues relate directly to the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources. The first is that the letter of offer was based on Bytel and Aurora working together and while Aurora subsequently pulled out, it was a subsidiary of Bord Gáis Éireann, which was a semi-State company that was responsible to the Department. First, the company that pulled out should have reported back to the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to let it know it had pulled out and that something therefore needed to be done. This point specifically relates to this Department here in the South, that is, to the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources. Second, I refer to the meeting in 2006 to which the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources was invited to listen to the whistleblower's allegation and to which the Department decided not to send anyone. Why did that happen?