Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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I will be brief. I wish to convey my condolences to Deputy Higgins. I was not aware that he had lost his mother.

Nobody has suggested that the due diligence to which Deputy Kevin Humphreys referred would not be done. It is self-evident that the OECD and other bodies must be questioned to ascertain information from them. Anybody who happens to be watching this session will simply have reconfirmed for them the state of paralysis and denial within the Irish political system. Anybody tuning in would quite rightly ask why the multinationals are not being brought in. Without prejudice to what they might say, I do not wish to make a judgment on guilt or innocence, or on the extent of tax avoidance or otherwise. This has been a matter of international public concern. If we wanted to make a show of weakness on behalf of Oireachtas committees, members have done that quite magnificently here today.