Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

No, I am making a general observation. For example, people come in and ask, for purposes that are obvious, how many of this, that and the other were involved in the Department for the past 20 years. A range of information is thrown out there and then one finds out that someone thought it interesting and it made a quarter of a page in some newspaper. The amount of time spent doing that is wrong. It is my opinion. They might be entitled to look for it, and I suppose we will not change it, but I think it is an abuse of process.

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