Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

It is slightly different. That is an issue considering the hypersensitivity of the Department on this issue because the Moriarty tribunal concerned another procurement process related to it. I do not believe the Department would have allowed me to go to a dinner with a bidder on my own. That would have set so many alarm bells off that there would have been a red alert. Does Mr. Smyth get a sense from the Department that it recognises that its Minister is not being protected if there are informal meetings of the kind in question, and that it would be very uncomfortable about it happening?