Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The timeframe was not too long. I was expecting Mr. O'Loughlin to say preparation started a week ago or so. Given the fact that it started on Monday, issues arose on Tuesday morning, today is Thursday, with that timeframe, I cannot fathom why somebody from the finance department cannot be here. Certain questions are not being answered because of that. As Mr. O'Loughlin will appreciate, the committee wants answers about public finance and cannot get them today. From our perspective, it is quite frustrating to ask questions about, as he said, some of the issues pertaining to 2022 or the previous years' accounts. Does he appreciate why we find it frustrating?