Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 November 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment

9:00 am

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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Why would that information not be at his fingertips now? He is coming into the Committee of Public Accounts to account for €179 million and is telling me that I have to wait until he is gone before I have that breakdown, which puts me at a disadvantage because I cannot then scrutinise how that money is spent. Mr. Griffin is not equipped to answer my questions today on that spend, which is 40% of the overall gross expenditure of his Department and I do not believe that is acceptable. We need to come back to this when the witnesses are finished.