Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

An operational forum is operating and none of the Minister's replies ever referred to that even though I was asking specific questions and the Minister would have said that it was not something that would have been discussed with her Department. I am pointing out that there seems to be a dysfunctional miscommunication problem within the Department. I accept that in a committee meeting, the Minister might not have that information to hand but in a number of written responses, none of this was referred to until last Friday. It had to be dragged out of the Minister and only because Mr. Bakhurst's information here on 14 February was inconsistent with the information the Minister gave me verbally and in written form. Why is that? Is this not indicative of a significant communication problem in the Department and is this not part of the reason we have the debacle that arose last Thursday?