Shane McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)

It has been made clear that in the transfer of information and data there is co-ordination between various institutions and the Department. I have given a reasonable reply to the question asked. Everyone regrets that 115,000 letters were issued without warning, but that is the way it is. I have outlined what happened and the issue has been addressed by way of people apologising earlier today for the manner in which the letters had been sent. The matter had to be dealt with and was dealt with. If the previous Government had been working on such measures and Ministers had been in control of their Departments, there might not have been such a scenario.

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