Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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Can I, just for the record, make it clear that I am not proposing that we use the treatment of those whistleblowers as any kind of benchmark to be visited on anyone else? That is entirely not my point. Professor Fitzgerald knows the point I am making. When staff, particularly in very senior positions, are found - it is not a question of a mistake or messing up - to have deliberately misled anybody, but particularly a Department, I would have thought there are consequences for them, that there are procedures to deal with that and one is not left weeks or months on an audit where it gets consumed into some kind of paper trail. I have made that point.

Not alone that, the Comptroller and Auditor General was misled, or is that too strong a word, Mr. McCarthy?