David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Yes, but it is no value to me or anyone else on this committee because it was the committee that was attacked and Deputy Fleming is our Chairman. As the comments were made in the Dáil Chamber, they need to be corrected there. I agree with Deputy MacSharry, we need the Minister – if he did offer an apology – to offer it in public at the next available opportunity, not just to you, as Chairman, but to the members of the Committee of Public Accounts for the slight in his comments on the work of this committee. I am not interested in personal handshakes during a vote. It is not good enough. We need to write to the Minister to ask that the apology be given in public in the Dáil.