Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Okay. I think the question that ... that would be leading to is a systemic relationship between decisions - action, outcome and consequence and so on - and the issue here is policies taken at a particular time, did they have systemic consequences to lead to something else. And the question that Deputy Doherty is presenting is did these actions add to something happening afterwards and, within the terms of reference, I would consider that to be a fair question. Deputy Doherty.