John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I agree with Mr. Governey's point with regard to post mortems and I was getting to that. This is the reason I was asking about Mr. Governey's interaction with these two individuals over the past three months - what they were talking about collectively and what he was saying to these two individuals as this was rolling out.

We are talking about considering compellability. The media are asking where we are going from here given that those people have not come to appear before the committee. I am asking where the end to this damage is - not just to Rehab, but to the entire charitable sector. That is what I am getting at. I am not interested in the post mortems. If the board stays and part of the board survives this, how will it deal with that legacy issue that everyone is wondering how to deal with? If those two individuals - two warm bodies - do not appear before this committee, how will Mr. Governey resolve this for his organisation? If everybody on the board resigns tomorrow, we still have the problem of dealing with the two people who did not appear before the committee. I need that answer.

Does Mr. Governey speak to these people every day? He has known them for ten or 15 years. They owe it to Rehab and to the charitable sector to come in here and deal with this once and for all. Mr. Governey should be calling these people and saying we have had enough of this. The public has enough of this. I think the media has had enough - maybe not the media. I am not trying to be funny. Mr. Governey understands what I am getting at. I want to get to the end of this. I accept everything he has said and putting his hands up is fair enough. However, there comes a point when we are repeating ourselves in the questioning and Mr. Governey must give us some kind of realistic answer as to how we end this once and for all, and put it to bed.