Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)

On the question of whether the committee shadowing my Department or the Committee of Public Accounts should investigate the matter, nobody has alleged that there was any wrongdoing in respect of this issue and therefore I would not use the word "investigate". My Department and I would certainly have no objection to co-operating if a committee wanted to seek the background details on the matter. I would certainly not term it "an investigation".

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