Micheál Carrigy (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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I do not want to cut across Mr. Ó Coigligh but he said this was at a time when funding was tight and we were coming out of recession. We were looking at a multimillion euro project when money was tight. This money was going to be spent and we did not have a proper project manager on it when it was allowed to happen, and we did not have it properly professionally assessed in the Department. Who in the Department was responsible for this? Somebody has to be responsible for taxpayers' money. We cannot blame it on recessions and that we did not have people. There is a responsibility on people. People are well paid in the Department, an awful lot better than any of us sitting here, to do these jobs and the job was not done. Who was responsible?