Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 June 2015

Public Accounts Committee

2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine

10:00 am

Photo of Paul ConnaughtonPaul Connaughton (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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Let us consider those eight people. Mr. O'Driscoll made the point that a good deal of memory has been built up and it is a historical thing. One of the issues we have heard about is to the effect that this group is out of control, that it is a small group of people who work among themselves, that they are answerable to no one and that they are left on their own to do their own business. This adds to the feeling that these people have been there for a long time, they have a grudge against someone at this stage and that they can continue to work in any way they see fit.