Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

If the Deputy wants a quick answer next week, she should submit a parliamentary question.

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However, I will come back to the Deputy as quickly as possible. There are questions for the auditors. I was very disappointed to see what happened with the shredding of evidence and with the coaching of EY, the auditors. It is not acceptable.

I want to address the question of resources. For 2011, I have the transcripts of a meeting which took place where the ODCE assured people, including my Department and the Department of Justice and Equality, that it had adequate resources. That meeting took place on 16 March 2011, with the following in attendance: Seán Gorman, then Secretary General of the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation; Seán Aylward, then Secretary General of the Department of Justice and Equality; then Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan; and Kevin O'Connell of the ODCE. In response to inquiries, both the Garda and the ODCE stressed that, as far as they were concerned, they had adequate resources, according to a note taken at that meeting. The Garda had 47 people involved in the inquiry and the ODCE had 16. The Commissioner stressed that both himself and his predecessor had at all times ensured that the Garda team had all the resources it required, and that was the answer our Department got. For its part, the ODCE said it was satisfied with the resources available to it and that it had received anything it had looked for. What happened-----

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