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

Clearly we do not, and certainly not when the independent report disagrees with the great on high. The reality is that it is time taxpayers stopped being taken for fools. They pay you €300,000 per year and, despite the expertise of all these parliamentary party people, we await a direct answer. Who, or what authority under what Act, allowed you to say: “Tony wanted to go. Martin said it was okay, so yeah €15 or €20 million is no big deal. His service to the State demanded it. He wanted a change.” Do you remember the Minister’s interview that day? Tony wanted a change and the taxpayer would step up on Robert Watt’s say-so. For the journalists, the members and, more importantly, the taxpayers at home, will you tell us what section of what Act gave you this unilateral plenipotentiary control over taxpayers’ money?