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

Okay, that is fine.

I welcome the Secretary General. He said that PwC consultants retain their independence but, as I said earlier, the contestants cannot judge the beauty pageant. By Mr. Breslin's admission PwC threw in a few extra lines at the end to reaffirm their genius in its advices of November or December in the report. Despite the great name and global standing of PwC, can Mr. Breslin say that the perception of conflict of interest does not exist here when the briefing document to which Deputy Connolly referred clearly states that some of the people involved in what was termed "high-level input" in November-December were the same people clapping themselves on the back for earning a sweet €55,000 a week for nine weeks in the report that said that the Government should go ahead?