Mr. Simon O'Brien:

As the Chairman has correctly stated, we are here within three days of the breaking of a significant story of public interest. The members are elected Deputies and Senators of this State and I hope we have been and will continue to be as open and frank as we can as long as the examination is ongoing. We hope to give much information. We are now in a place where we are speaking of these issues because of the unauthorised leaking of a secret document. That is not a place I wanted to get to but it is where we are. We should be looking towards moving forward, rebuilding confidence in the Irish people and rebuilding any damage to the relationship between our organisation and the Garda Síochána so that we can move forward to address other very important issues in the very near future.