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

Okay. It's in that regard now, Mr. McCreevy, I'd like to give you a document as well during the break. It's a document from your own Department. I think it's come out in July there under a freedom of information request and I just want to deal with that after the break, but it comes from your own Department and it's from the Office of the Minister for Finance and it relates to the pre-budget Estimates in and around the same period. The document's dated 19 June 2003 and it relates about going into 2004. So I'll just ask legal to give you a copy of that before we go for a break and I'd also ask just to get a clarification on the chronological kind of dates that Deputy O'Donnell is referring to.

So, with that said, I now propose that we take a break. The witness is reminded that once he begins giving evidence, he should not confer with any person other than his legal team in relation to his evidence on matters that are being discussed before the committee. With that in mind, I now suspend the meeting until ... if I can say 17.25, if that's agreeable, and remind the witness that he's still under oath until we resume. Is that agreed? Agreed.