Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I will make a comment on Mr. Murphy's last statement because, as a practising politician and somebody who has held executive office, there is a certain coldness about an auditex post factoof decisions that were made in the middle of a crisis. There is some controversy about the procurement of respirators in Ireland, for example, and across Europe. Had we needed them, it would have been a much bigger crisis. We need to temper the cold audit in the light of the exigencies that faced decision -makers at the time on all of these matters.