Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Second, on to the three areas which the Chairman outlined where he felt that people had approached him in different ways, I support him in his using his discretion as to how he was going to reveal this. It is important we all do for the simple reason that if the Chairman had to reveal some of this at the time, the whole thing would have been taken over. What would have happened? We have to trust his discretion and he is the Chairman.

Finally, I mentioned moving on earlier and the need to get on with the work programme. We obviously have to have this discussion and there will be follow-up in regard to the issues which have arisen from it, but one thing that has not yet been referred to, and it is deeply disturbing and worrying. The facts are that this committee did not cover itself in glory in the way there were so many leaks, we do not know how. The draft report was leaked. However it was leaked, we will never know. We need to move on in our work in a different way.