Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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It is getting more bizarre as time goes on. That is all I can say. I have two other quick questions. Mr. McCarthy stated earlier that the whole purpose of this was to get it off balance sheet and that the procedure dealing with EUROSTAT and the CSO was a separate procedure. What does this mean? Who spoke to the CSO on behalf of Mr. McCarthy's Department, which was outsourcing Irish Water? Did Mr. McCarthy's Department do it? Did the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform do it? Did the CSO come into it? Surely Mr. McCarthy's Department has not done it unilaterally without discussions? Tell us what happened and what were the discussions on satisfying the CSO and EUROSTAT. It surely was not done on the blind.