Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 31 January 2019
Public Accounts Committee
Business of Committee
9:00 am
Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
No, I just wanted to bring it to members' attention. The union had engaged in a small media campaign, which seemed to be something of a red herring along the lines that the work here was in some way trying to undermine canteen services available to prison officers. The email which I had received was sent to the media and followed up with a radio interview with Ocean FM, the content of which was broadly similar to the email sent to me by the union. I gave a detailed response, which I would like published for the benefit of members, who will see there is no basis to any accusation that we were pulling the figures from the sky or basing it on anything other than the information that was provided in questioning and other documentation that I had in my possession.
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