Bobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The more questions we ask the more frustrated we become. I make the observation that I find it hard to believe we have witnesses who have been project managers for this scheme from day one and when we ask them a question, they have to go back to using a pen and paper to make up numbers. That is unbelievable for professionals in front of the committee. They knew that they were going to be asked about the spending of taxpayers' money and how it was spent and they are there with pens and paper making up numbers as they go along. The witnesses have been before the Joint Committee on Health and are now with us and they are still doing it today.