Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Public Accounts Committee
Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE
6:20 pm
Mr. Tony O'Brien:
Is it correct that Deputy McDonald's maths are correct? That is not our projection.
Pleading the fifth carries a particular connotation. When our colleagues in the United States plead the fifth, they do so on the grounds that anything they say might incriminate them. Neither Dr. McLoughlin nor I made any such submission to the committee.