Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

With respect to where the Department is at now on this, in terms of what is going on here I just do not get it. Mr. Martin said that the Ombudsman told him that he was interpreting the scheme wrongly. Mr. Martin said he replied that they were not and that this was the criteria and if the Department was to do what he was looking for, it would be a matter for Government and that it would have to change the scheme.

Mr. Martin said that, in order to do what the Ombudsman wanted, it would be a matter for the Government to change the scheme. He disagreed with this but chose not to tell the Government, instead keeping the Minister in the dark while he waited for the next finding. When it came out in November, upholding everything the Ombudsman had said, was a call made immediately to the Minister? Mr Martin had previously said it was a political problem and that the Government had got the scheme wrong.