Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We are in public session and I have no problem dealing with this issue. I sought additional staff when we commenced our work and we had staff going through all the correspondence, summarising everything for the report, and they were available to us until the beginning of January. We probably thought we would have had a draft report in January. It has taken a little longer because we held our public hearings right up until Christmas week. We were still in receipt of correspondence subsequent to those meetings. It is unfortunate we do not have the full complement of staff to see it through. The outcome of it is that we are no more than a week or two behind where would like to have been. We would like to be finishing it up now, but we will have the final work from the secretariat in the coming week. There is no point in drafting in extra staff at this stage; we are down to the final-----