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

I promise to not take too much longer. I understand that mess committees are registered charities and limited companies. Have they memoranda and articles of association? Are there procedures? Where does all the money go? Are they all cash payments? Do those cash payments tally with a tally roll from a till? Are all transactions put through the till? Is all the money that comes in lodged to this account? If there are such modest amounts left, taking into account the cost per day to feed people, it would seem to me that money is missing. This needs to come under the Comptroller and Auditor General for auditing. I appreciate that the witnesses might be annoyed with me for throwing this at them today. They might not have been ready for it but it is clearly the first time it has come up in this way and it clearly needed to. Let us get to the bottom of it. I appreciate that the witnesses think I am looking for headlines but I am not box office and my name is not Healy-Rae, so it probably will not.