Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Yes, we will write to the Secretary General of the Department of Health, who is the Accounting Officer, for a copy of the directive and the legislation underpinning this directive. What I found very unusual was that this was done on the last working day before the accounts were sent. It was obviously known that the accounts would present figures showing a deficit of €283 million and a decision was taken to issue that directive to take that figure out of the accounts. It is within the law but bad practice.