103 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department maintained to the fraud squad in its statement of 26 April 1999 that it had assured itself that the invoices related to the alleged fraud had been paid; the way in which this can be explained, in view of the later admission by his Department that it was fairly typical to release grant payment when it had assured itself that the programme was generally on course; the reason attention was not drawn in the statement to the fraud squad, that invoices were not required to match incurred expenditure at the time of draw down; and the further reason the then Tánaiste informed Dáil Éireann on two occasions and her Department informed the accused in writing on another two occasions that all relevant information had been made available, when clearly the vital evidence had been withheld. [29576/04]

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103 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department maintained to the fraud squad in its statement of 26 April 1999 that it had assured itself that the invoices related to the alleged fraud had been paid; the way in which this can be explained, in view of the later admission by his Department that it was fairly typical to release grant payment when it had assured itself that the programme was generally on course; the reason attention was not drawn in the statement to the fraud squad, that invoices were not required to match incurred expenditure at the time of draw down; and the further reason the then Tánaiste informed Dáil Éireann on two occasions and her Department informed the accused in writing on another two occasions that all relevant information had been made available, when clearly the vital evidence had been withheld. [29576/04]

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