Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I read that letter and took time to read everything that is related. Foolishly or otherwise, I read all of the case law on it. There is a fundamental misunderstanding about what we are being asked to do in the committee. The request is for the Committee of Public Accounts to ask or direct the Comptroller and Auditor General to confirm in writing four things which he found in the accounts. There is a fundamental misunderstanding generally, not just specifically here, that we are being asked to direct the Comptroller and Auditor General to go back to look again and find something that he has not said. It is important that he has an independent role. He has done a report and we have examined it. We are now being asked to go back. I do not think that is possible. Issues relating to value for money for school transport need to be teased out, but those are different issues and will be addressed in due course.