Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is No. 1209 B.

It is the final two paragraphs of his letter. The point I am making is that he says the decision relating to that refusal to give this committee the correspondence, either in a private session or on any other basis, is the collective corporate fiduciary responsibility of the Department of Health and the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board. My recollection - I am open to correction on this - is that when he was pressed on the matter he said that he took the decision when the last questioner raised it with him. That is my recollection of the matter, and this would appear to be at odds with it. He is saying that it is a corporate decision, but I thought I heard him say that day that, as Accounting Officer, it is his decision and that he made the decision.