Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This email from Mr. McGee to Mr. Barrett might help us shed light on what was happening here. Mr. McGee asks how Mr. Barrett is doing and goes through some of the issues. He then says: "I think the problem in approaching the solving of this, is that because of the potential negative reputational risk for the organisation - in that once this starts to be sorted out it hits the public media, either through audit etc., it could have very big ramifications - like the accounting officer appearing before the PAC etc. - so it is how to solve this quietly without risking exposure - again this is just my opinion - so this report was quiet sensitive - Michael..." - presumably this is Mr. Culhane-----