Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 October 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

Photo of Shane CassellsShane Cassells (Meath West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

People have talked about conclusiveness. That depends largely on witnesses being willing participants in answering questions. We have seen this to be an issue with Project Eagle and Templemore, when we thought we were arriving at conclusiveness and that our meeting would put the matter to bed, only for the process to have to go on and on. A large part of it depends on the people coming before us and their not being smart or stonewalling us. I agree with Deputy Connolly about the Department of Justice and Equality. Its role in the Templemore issue is most pertinent in terms of this particular issue as well. I do not think anyone is straying beyond his or her remit whatsoever because, as we proved the previous day, in terms of what people have said about value for money and impact on communities, this goes to the very heart of what we are talking about.

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