Mary Upton (Dublin South Central, Labour)

The Minister did not respond to Deputy Mitchell's query in regard to whether she would consider commissioning an independent report. There are three groups involved in this matter. Whatever the outcome, clearly a major problem exists somewhere. What sanctions, if any, will be applied? Somebody is clearly wrong. There has been a total mess up, given that €700,000 of potential sports money has been wasted on a court case. I would like to believe somebody somewhere will be held accountable for this. We simply cannot allow this type of major public row or that people can walk away, go back to their desks and continue whatever they were doing previously.

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