Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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Sorry, yes. There are officials in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform whose full-time job is to manage the health Vote, one of the largest Votes in the Government. I am specifically requesting that the committee invite them to appear if we can find out who they are. I think there are two of them, but there may be one. I am open to correction.

I agree with the previous speaker. Members of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board appeared before this committee. We need to question its members again, along with the Secretary General, in the very near future. Given the volume of information that has since entered the public domain, the questions we asked and the answers we were given are no longer the totality of what we need to know. We need to go back there again.