Mr. Feargal Ó Coigligh:

The issue here is to ensure that the Department gives good public service and we are giving excellent public service to sporting organisations and cultural and artistic organisations up and down the country. We are now taking on the brief of communications to ensure that this country has a world-class communications system and, of course, a media system as well. We are working strongly across all our sectors. I have more than 500 staff who are giving their all.

Mistakes get made. People are operating under pressure. Balls were dropped. In this case, people got sucked into the narrative that, "One more push and we will get it across the line." That is a huge amount of what happened here. On behalf of the Department, I am confident that we will learn the lessons from this case and that we will continue to deliver strongly on behalf of all the people of Ireland across all the services that we deliver.