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

With all due respect, I think Mr. McGee is being a wee bit disingenuous, and I am struggling to know the reason. That email suggests to me that he had had a conversation with Mr. Barrett and because he is clearly a person of some critical skills he had figured out that the game here was to deal with this quietly. For the purposes of the record, this email was written in 2015. Mr. McGee had produced his report in 2008. He had joined the dots because he is smart. He had figured that the game here was to keep this quiet - no reputational damage, no Comptroller and Auditor General, no Committee of Public Accounts, no hassle, no aggro, keep quiet. That is what this says to me.