Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

I accept the Taoiseach could not possibly know the individual incidences of every agency or quango around the country. My point is that following Deputy Varadkar's investigation the freedom of information material given to him clearly shows that the opinion of the FÁS executive, who is responsible for a €9 million advertising and PR budget, is that having control of that spend could influence how FÁS is portrayed in the newspapers. If one turns that around, it is using public money to buy influence in newspapers. That is not what the FÁS training agency should be about and it does down the very good work and good people who work in FÁS throughout the country.

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