Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

What he has made very clear is this. The Accounting Officer, Nóirín O’Sullivan, signed the statement of accounting policies and practices for the previous year on 31 March 2016. Five months after she had signed it, she added a new paragraph in September 2016. The document we have signed by her at the end of March 2016 could not have been signed at the end of March 2016 because its contents were not confirmed until five months later. We have been misled. I am putting it simply. The Committee of Public Accounts-----