Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)

I want to return to the issues in the NSSO. This is an agency under the Minister's remit and, as I said, a basket case with regard to financial controls. It collected over €2 million in taxes over nine years and did not give it to Revenue. A full review was carried out, which the Minister's Department signed off on. It told the Comptroller and Auditor General that everything was tax-compliant, then we found that there are three other separate cases which involve potentially 13,000 retired individuals, 30 senior civil servants who are retired, and, we now understand from the Minister's current answer, nearly all Ministers in the current Government, with the exception of six.