John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We have asked for them within two weeks, so there is one week left.

There is one other matter which I would like to clear up, because I asked the question of Ms Kerins last week and as far as I recall, there was no answer to it. I asked whether Mr. Flannery was invited to attend the meeting and whether the remuneration committee was invited to attend the meeting. There was no answer to either part of that question. In view of what happened afterwards, where it was said that Mr. Flannery was in the Houses when we were having the meeting, he could very well have been invited. He may not have been invited; I do not know. We have to find out. It is only fair to him and to the committee. We should write specifically to Ms Kerins and ask for the answer to those two questions, because there is now a third party who has not been before us, and we do not know whether he even knew about the meeting.

We need to ask those questions and we also need to ask who decided the make up of the Rehab group that came before the committee. I think that is also important. Although Ms Kerins was answering in the context of the remuneration committee, there were certain questions which she simply could not answer because she said that she had no memory of what went on. If we could get clarity on these issues, it might help to understand what happened on that day.