Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I also thought a firm decision had been taken last week as to how we would proceed and that we would do so step by step. I thought the advice we got from our own adviser was to be circulated so we would have a hard copy of it and we could study that, because we have only a short time to study it, and we have already circulated the opinion from Mr. Ryan's counsel, so we have that in hard copy format as it is. I thought we had also decided to pursue matters with the Revenue Commissioners in order to ascertain the extent of work they have done on Ansbacher and other issues, which would clarify to a much greater degree how we might proceed subsequently. There is an issue of going around in circles with legal advice. We have discussed this for a very long time and we know we can get a variety of legal opinions. We have two opinions in front of us and the opportunity of having the Revenue Commissioners before us next week. Let us get on with that for the moment.