Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 12 July 2018
Public Accounts Committee
Business of Committee
9:00 am
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
My point is that we need to be extra precious when it comes to correspondence that makes allegations against individuals that could be defamatory. If it ends up in the newspapers even before we get a chance to discuss it, it is not then accepted as Committee of Public Accounts correspondence. We had the dossier from Ms Skelly. Some of that ended up in the media. We need to be extra precious and cautious because it could land us in trouble at some point. I know there is nothing we can do about it but it is-----
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