Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)

I reiterate that this matter is being dealt with. The Deputy is right. It is an urgent matter but in working on this draft today the reply has changed in the time since I first saw it. It referred to arranging a meeting as a matter of urgency and now, as I have been able to tell the Deputy, the meeting will take place tomorrow. I understand it will be at 2 p.m. but I ask the Deputy not to hold me to that. It has to happen, and the national inspection body chaired by the Government Secretary General, Dermot McCarthy, is to ensure that meeting goes ahead. The urgency of it is beyond question, and I hope that can be taken as such.

All I can say to the Deputy is that audits take place all the time. The figure he cited is news to me. I am not sure what his source of information is but if it was to be mentioned I would have been given information of that sort. The reply I have read is the reply I have been given.

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