John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

First of all, I did not suggest otherwise. I gave the facts as the committee members would know them and as you would know them. You have given an answer that, like the other answers you have given today, falls well short of what would be expected of the standards of a Secretary General of a Department, a senior member of the Civil Service. That is the question not answered. In the exchanges you had with other members it was said to you that €2 million per year had been committed to this secondment. You made the point that this €2 million was committed through the HRB so it was not going to the college at all. The funding was going to the HRB and it could decide what to do with that €2 million. Do I understand you correctly?