Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Unusually for the Committee of Public Accounts, we have invited in not only the chairperson and chief executive officer but also each member to give them a chance to speak. The board made the decisions and it speaks with one voice so we are giving the witnesses additional time. They have given us a ten-page reply and used those ten pages to be pejorative, to be overly defensive and not to deal with the issues. My first question deals with the conflict of interest.