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

I do not know either. I went as low as €3 and as high as €10. The fact is that mess committees are not regulated by anybody with no oversight, accountancy or audit. There is a suggestion of them cross-subsidising stock from taxpayers' cash for prisoners' food and so on and there is no oversight. I am sorry to have to say this and I appreciate that people are new to particular roles but the blank faces and lack of answers are perhaps the most worrying fact. It was somehow okay over there and on a not-for-profit basis. If any meals are being sold, there is serious profit with no overhead. If it is going out to tender tomorrow, the witnesses can stick my name on the list to try to put a catering company together.