David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I had a brief conversation with the Chair. I accept that it is not possible for representatives from Revenue to come before us at tomorrow's meeting. We had a very lengthy discussion with legal advisors anyway with regard to the internal audit report. It has some relevance to that. At the same time, this whole issue flags and raises questions of process for the HSE, which we will deal with tomorrow as appropriate. It also raises questions for the Companies Registration Office in terms of controls, as well as the Revenue Commissioners. If we are going to ask questions of the HSE about its internal processes, we have a responsibility to ask the same questions of the Revenue Commissioners and the Companies Registration Office. There were many issues within that report that jump out at me as failures in processes and lax controls. That is my opinion. Others may have different views. My party and I certainly feel that it is very important in the context of this report that we have the Revenue Commissioners before the committee because the report flags systemic problems. If these problems arise across the full remit of these organisations, it has implications for taxpayers' money. It is important that we-----