Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I understand and I am around long enough to understand this. It is somewhat strange that the figure is still at €2 million, which it has been for about five years. In years previous, while it may have been even longer than five years, it was quite a small figure but, as the Minister has said, in the overall scheme of things it is not that big. This expenditure was not always under the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform and it has moved but it is never down as coming under the committee which deals with the Vote of that Department. It never appears in the list of what that committee is dealing with. If that is the tradition, I will leave the tradition as is. It is just one of those oddities in here. It will probably be called "them" or something like that in years to come.

A book was produced about an organisation which never existed and I think it was the only secret service we probably ever had in this State other than one belonging to another country. The book was produced in 1924 which was called Ireland's Secret Service in Britain. This book was about the IRA carrying out actions in Britain during the 1919 to 1921 war and I think a man called Brady was the author. This organisation did not exist but consisted of whoever operated in Britain during those years. As far as I know there was no organisation and I believe it is the title which attracts the interest of people. If it was called something else, probably nobody would ever pay heed to it.

I am happy enough with the reply of the Minister.

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