Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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My view on it is this - we are in an open society and anybody is entitled to criticise our work, including line Ministers or any member of the public if they do not think we are doing a good job. People have the right to criticise us. We are not above criticism. In the press release by the Minister of State, Deputy Halligan, he also warned that any incorrect suggestions of impropriety could have a seriously destabilising effect on the institute at a critical point in its campaign for technological university status. We should write to the Minister of State and ask him to clarify and specify what incorrect suggestions of impropriety he is referring to. I do not think we made any suggestion of impropriety.