David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

-----this committee as well, it is incredible. It chimes with what we were saying when its representatives were here. We were getting push-back from these universities as to what we were asking questions for and they said we were being too tough. It goes back to this public perception, or rather the perception of some in the commentariat, that the Committee of Public Accounts is overstepping the mark and is unfair to witnesses, which I reject completely. Here is a situation in which it is very clear to us now that we had Accounting Officers before us who did not give us the information we sought and in fact may have given us inaccurate information. Certainly, it seems they gave inaccurate information to the Comptroller and Auditor General. It is quite serious and we have to come back to it. The Waterford report is not in the same space, to be fair. It is not about wrong information. My comments were on the Limerick one. However, we can deal with both on the same day.