Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The use by Mr. Carville of this committee as a tool is not a subject of litigation but it is a subject that interests me as a member of this committee. Mr. Carville is not entitled to offer this committee to anybody, for anything, at any time. That is the gift of the members of this committee and the Houses of the Oireachtas. Could I ask Mr. Carville again, was he aware that happened? As I said, I might well agree with the Department withdrawing its case and deferring to the Committee of Public Accounts because I think it would be more in the public interest, but as a matter of courtesy, never mind actual procedures of the House, the Department might have had the manners to contact the clerk to the committee, the Chair of the committee or any one of the other 12 members to ask if it was okay.