Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

As far as Mr. Watt is concerned, it is his responsibility.

If I were the deputy CMO and UCC offered me a professorship I would quite fancy, would Mr. Watt pay for it? Mr. Watt is telling me he is in a position to unilaterally take that decision, make all the arrangements and then bounce the Government of the day or the three party leaders into agreeing to it because he has leaked it to the media himself. That seems to be the process followed in this instance.