Mr. John McKeon:

It would have been investigating at the time, I suspect, and it would certainly have come to its attention as it was giving advice on SICAP and would have looked into the type of services being provided, which are very similar.

When mentioning SICAP, it might be useful to point out that the Department paid a lot of attention to the debate last week and one of the things that struck me about it was that many of the exact same concerns were expressed in June 2014 in a similar Dáil Private Members’ motion which was introduced by Deputy Ó Cuív at the time. Many of the concerns expressed then about the consequences and the inability of partnership companies, and so on, to engage and what that would mean for them, were exactly the same ones that are being expressed now. I hope that this will give comfort to the firms involved that the fears they had about SICAP turned out to be largely unfounded.