Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

It met five times and the last time was in February. I do not wish to prejudge anything we are going to say about Project Eagle, but it seems to be the same lack of analysis. I do not know whether there is something in the air in that we have Project Eagle and are now talking about a jet. The Department was under pressure and it sold the jet off. It had no other option. Separate from that we have a parallel issue. There is an interdepartmental group set up with no meetings since last February. I understand that Mr. Quinn says the Department was under pressure and that other things were happening last year, but it does not strike me that somebody is taking this seriously, learning from it and coming in to say "Sorry". In fact, Mr. Quinn is not quite saying "Sorry" because the Department disagrees with the Comptroller and Auditor General although it agrees it should have recorded this better. I appreciate that acknowledgement. In circumstances where there was no meeting since last February, however, we are not giving the person out there listening a sense that we have looked at this, we were under pressure, we have learned from it and we are changing. That is what people just want.