John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)

If I may ask a question, the officials have come before the public accounts committee today. I am sure meetings took place among them as to what might be discussed here. Did they not think they should be forthcoming with information such as this, given that they were coming before the committee that is tasked with scrutinising public expenditure? Do they not think that should have been forthcoming? There is no mention of it anywhere, only for this having come up at the latter end of the meeting when a lot of the members are not here. Should the witnesses have been forthcoming with this bombshell information?