Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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Excuse me. Mr. Beausang is here to represent the Department. He is here to answer questions. With all due respect, he should not be here if he is not capable of answering the questions or does not have the capacity to do so. His Secretary General or somebody else should be here. With all due respect, it is actually disingenuous to the Committee of Public Accounts for the Department to send people who cannot answer questions. This is a fairly basic question. All this information was revealed in the last committee hearing. It is not as though we were not going to follow up on it. Can Mr. Beausang answer my question now?