Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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I am deeply alarmed that this committee is not allowed, given that we have given notice, to ask questions about the creation of a unit, which does not stray into anything to do with the tribunal. I have asked well over 20 parliamentary questions on this matter but I have not received answers. The Secretary General is aware of this because I have had to go back to him seeking answers to my questions. Here today my questions has been knocked down again and the Garda Commissioner has said that he does not want them to be answered. We have also got a situation where the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform did not give sanction until May. Now, we note on the record, that the head of HR has expressed, on a number of occasions, his concerns about this issue. Those are the facts. I want it put on the record that I am deeply unhappy that my questions have not been answered in any forum.