David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

When the Comptroller and Auditor General prepares a special report, he must provide a draft of it - perhaps he does not have to, actually - to the agency or Department under review. There was an extraordinary, almost unprecedented, pushback from the Department against even engaging. It sent 400 scanned pages with no numbers as its response. This is incredible stuff. The Department will appear before us next week and there will be an expectation that we will deal with this issue. Can we raise the issue of the report? What can we ask? Will these matters be clarified before Ms Dixon attends next week?