Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will give as much information as I can bearing in mind that I do not want to cause any unintentional confusion around this. When the categorisation was brought to my attention, we were under pressure to publish the March numbers and I did not want to fall away from the monthly reporting with which we had been proceeding. The decision I made was to put out the numbers and also to be upfront about the mis-categorisation knowing that I did not know the total amount, that there was still more information to come and that a piece of work was ongoing. That is not a position I wanted to be in but I felt I had to be honest because the Deputy is right about-----