David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Department does not need to go back to 2008. The specific question relates to the memorandum. It was not around in 2008 and, therefore, I am not interested in what happened in 2008 and what the Department is trawling through. With regard to this memorandum, how in God's name does it take this long to get this type of information? We had this issue with the Department of Justice and Equality when there was a difficulty trawling through and finding emails. What is going on in the public service that we cannot be told whether the HSE gave information to the Department? The HSE director general is saying one thing while Mr. Breslin is telling me that the Department is still trawling through emails and he is still not in a position to confirm whether he received anything. Can he understand how frustrating that is for those of us whose job is to hold him and Mr. O'Brien to account?