Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)

This issue centres on whether we accept this report. The Minister said the Tánaiste worked on it. Let us leave that to one side. Was the whole situation not flawed regarding Ireland's fight on this if the information provided was out of date? Surely if that was the case, we were going nowhere from the start. We could not win or get friends if that was the situation because obviously we were in a negative rather than a positive situation which weakened our case. I give the Minister the benefit of the doubt. I respect his honour. I ask him to go back to the Court of Auditors to determine the situation regarding the information being out of date and report back to us.

When did Greencore decide that was it and that it was not going any further? Did the Tánaiste know that before she went to Brussels? Was it decided during the visit? When was it decided? Is that the decision the Tánaiste had to renegotiate when she got the information? Did Greencore have to make a decision when all was done and the package was in place whereby it had to decide to continue on the other side? Did it make a decision before the final negotiations were finished?

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