John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)

I did. The Deputy should check the record of the House. I said I was keeping open the option of widening the remit of the Comptroller and Auditor General. However, I felt it would have been premature to do it before I had received the reports which I had commissioned. I received those reports, the two independent consultants' reports, Brassil and King, and I acted on foot of those reports.

Deputy Hogan decided to leak the reports. He had copies of them.

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