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

I'm going to stop the clock for a second, okay. And because we have a long day ahead of us and we have another long day on Wednesday of next week ahead of us. And I would be very firm in asking members of this committee not to be implying any value judgments in their questions and not to be leading unintentionally, or in any other way, a witness and I've been consistent in that since we began the inquiry.

Secondly, I would also ask the witnesses, when they come before us, not to kind of engage in secondary locations of questions that's put back to them as regards the, kind of, questioning the intent of the witness or going into another area that may be related to some third party. We don't need a second-hand subjective testimony to this inquiry.

And, thirdly, right on the very first day that we started this inquiry, I was very clear in my mind that this is not the Dáil Chamber and what I mean by that, that it's not an adversarial environment and it's one in which the committee members and have to this date, left their club jerseys at the door and I would hope that that would be reflected over the next two days as we continue. Witnesses come in here to give us the best information that they can, to the best of their ability and that has happened and also, questioners rely on the evidence that is presented to us. So with that said, I'd like you to conclude your line of questioning and then we go for a cup of coffee, Deputy Higgins. Thank you.