Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 March 2019
Public Accounts Committee
Business of Committee
9:00 am
Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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-----we cannot ask him questions any day where his Secretary General decides that person does not have to come to the meeting. That is not right. There is something wrong in the rules if that is the interpretation. We are going to have to change the rules because that is not transparency. I know Mr. Watt well since he worked with us in Government previously. We will ask him many questions and I am sure he will do his best to answer them. On the specific detail, however, Mr. Watt will not be able to delve down to the same level in his answers as the man who has been sitting on the board and who is also head of procurement for the whole country.