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

While the court case is ongoing on the issue, they more than likely cannot come before the committee or give information, but we can ask for clarification on the submission that was made to the committee and their response to the recent allegations, and to the taped conversations and the transcripts that are now available fairly widely. We can seek information on that, which is what I would hope that we would do. Arising from that, we can see where we are going.

The allegation is that we were misled. If that is so, it is very serious. However, as I say, it is an allegation and we need to gather our information and then the questions that need to be asked can be put to the appropriate person.

As there is no other matter, I will go through the correspondence from Accounting Officers and-or Ministers that was received since our meeting of Thursday, 10 April. In light of the correspondence received yesterday from Rehab which was brought to the attention of members, copies of which members received since yesterday, if they want to raise any matter on that correspondence they may do so now. It is the legal response from Mr. Flannery and Ms Kerins.