Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 February 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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Can I make one follow-up point? This is not a criticism of the clerk to the committee but my office was in contact with him and there were seven or eight e-mails exchanged. The response I got back about the delay implied that it had nothing to do with staffing. Staffing was not even referenced. I was told that the delay was to do with tying up loose ends. That is the problem we have; there was no clarity given to us, right through the process, as to exactly what was happening and why. If that can be-----