Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform was aware of it. I asked whether the Comptroller and Auditor General's report was read, and it was. These people only finished in July when the process concluded. The Department should have been made aware of seven, but the other Department only told it about two. Obviously, no action was taken because the other five seemed to have continued as they had been and they all finished when Eircode was launched. The Department was told of two, given that they were mentioned in the document. That should have been enough reason to start examining whether there were others, but it obviously did not. In the intervening period, these "taxi meters" were out of control. It is a scandal.