Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I cannot understand how a financial organisation, the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland, can write to the Committee of Public Accounts on a financial query and supply three pages without mentioning a single euro. Talk about a generalised response. The SBCI was hoping we would accept it. We do not accept it. We acknowledge it, but we want a proper reply the next time.

The next item is No. 1,789 from Mark Griffin, Secretary General of the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment, dated 6 December, providing information requested at our meeting last week. These queries concerned contracts awarded without a competitive process. There are very useful details here. Mr. Griffin says that some of the issues relate to very specialised, unique expertise only available to a very limited number of contractors, or in some areas only available to one. There is good information there. We will note and publish that.