Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The next item on the agenda is the minutes of the meeting of 26 April. Are they agreed to? Agreed. Having had a cursory look at them, I have one observation to make. We had much correspondence to deal with last week and met people about the Probation Service and the building. There were many unanswered questions and we had to issue requests for 27 items of information as a result. Rather than providing full answers, every one of the items of correspondence generated further questions. When officials from the Department of Justice and Equality were here, we had to seek further details on ten matters that were not available on the day. Getting a letter from a Department does not mean that we should accept it at face value, rather we should interrogate it. We will go back until we get the information we require.