Robert Watt tells PAC he does not recall if he said Chairman Sean Fleming 'needs to control the mob'
The most senior civil servant in charge of public spending has become embroiled in a row with members of the Dáil's Public Accounts Committee over claims he said they were "a mob" that needed to be controlled.
Sinn Féin's David Culliane told the committee it was reported by a "very responsible journalist" that Mr Watt had said, outside of the committee room, that Committee Chairman Sean Fleming, "needs to control the mob."Mr Watt said he apologised if anyone took offence with anything that he said: "I don't know what I said. If I said anything that offended anybody, apologies for that.
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