Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

One of these days we will want Ms McPhillips to appear before us with a full team, including representatives from the State Solicitor's Office, the Office of Public Works, the professional architects who were advising the OPW and any other relevant parties to discuss this €3.89 million waste of taxpayer's money. That is what the Comptroller and Auditor General called it and it is very rare for him to write a paragraph like that in one of his reports. This is a saga. Ms McPhillips has said that the Department has closed the book on it but from the public's point of view, we are only getting to discuss the final outcome now. Up until now, it was an ongoing situation. We now have a final outcome which looks like a complete disaster. In truth, none of us can understand the logic of what happened. If we were so right, how did we end up paying out that money? None of us understands that.