Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Is there anything in the report Mr. Gleeson wishes he was aware of when the Department was preparing the Estimates for last year and this year? The Department appears before a select committee to discuss its Estimate and we go into the Dáil to vote on it on the basis of this year or last year and what the Department believes to be the case. Two years after the fact the Department now has a commercially sensitive report that may be significant - I have no idea because I have not seen the report - and it would have been helpful for the State agency under the remit of the Department to be aware of these reports. We have all voted these figures through the Dáil on the blind and it looks as if the Department has been preparing them on the blind without the report. This is our concern. Where is the governance, oversight and control?