Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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I understand. The Deputy asked two questions. The first was to me and why we would examine this. It is Vote 1. There are 40 Votes before us every year and we discuss the majority of them, albeit we do not get to all of them every year. As Chairman, I have received several requests to discuss the matter and I said that if we do it, it will have to be done promptly as I would not like to do it during the campaign. It is the first chapter in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report every year which we are free to examine. I would not like to have a substantive discussion on the issue-----