Colm Brophy (Dublin South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As Chairman, I am going to make the point again to Deputy Doherty that when we invite witnesses in to talk to us about a topic, if we have not given any advance notice of the questions, we can keep asking questions but they will not have the information. We are not the Joint Committee on Health. The witnesses are in before us to discuss budget management and control of health expenditure in the context of budget 2020. I am conscious of our time and of the witnesses' time and of the new strictures on committees trying to operate within the context. I am not trying to restrict Deputy Doherty and I hope he appreciates that. We are moving to an area where the answer is that the witnesses do not have the information but they will send it to us.