John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I want to go back to the beginning of the meeting to clarify something. We did our best to have the meeting and be constructive about it. Just to be helpful, we invited members of two other committees - the budgetary committee and the health committee - because of the number of invitations Mr. Watt had received. We notified the other committee members. In our correspondence to Mr. Watt, we asked that Mr. Quinn would attend. We did so because of the fact that his Department works with this committee. Mr. Watt, or somebody, chose not to have Mr. Quinn here.