Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I shall start by discussing the last accusation of using political manoeuvres. That is outrageous. Throughout all of this process politics did not come into it.

I shall talk about the injunction in a minute and I might not be so gracious. I thank the Chairman for chairing these meetings fairly, under extreme difficulty and following serious attacks on a constant basis in the media and, in particular, leaks that I would say did not come from any of us present today. That raises questions in itself to the point where I said that we should not have private meetings any more. I suggested that we should have public meetings in order that we can determine the narrative. To state there was political manoeuvring is disgusting really - over a process politics never came into until the words "not advisable" cropped up. Simply, Fine Gael wanted to insert the words "not advisable". We changed our words to make the report as soft as possible to say not procedurally correct.