John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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The total sum is €50.14 million. Maybe we should go back to the Department as an exercise and ascertain how the decision was arrived at, who took the decisions and how the matter was analysed. The Deputy asked whether someone will be sanctioned over this. It is a reasonable question and the Department should be asked how this happened. We should ask whether it was politically driven. We know why what was being suggested was suggested but we should ask whether it occurred to no one in the Department that this might be the result. That is the least we could do.