Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Before I go to Deputy Jonathan O'Brien, I must say I am very disappointed to hear that after 11 hours in three meetings of the Joint Committee on Health, three hours in this committee and several opening statements from every representative of the board at all of those committees, it has only now been extracted that the State faced a penalty clause for not signing on time. The witnesses should have been a bit more upfront on that.