Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am delighted. I am not interested in her pastimes.

I want to move on to another piece of correspondence. This is again from Mr. Culhane, but was sent to Mr. Kelly. It is dated 13 October 2016. He wrote this a couple of weeks before he wrote to the Commissioner. In this letter, he takes Mr. Kelly to task. He accuses him of being unprofessional, misleading and mischievous. He accuses him of making defamatory comments. Ms O'Sullivan is familiar with this piece of correspondence. Again, the language is fairly dramatic. Those are his words.

Mr. Howard, chair of the audit committee, wrote to Ms O'Sullivan not in respect of this letter, but, rather, this turn of events because he is obviously very concerned that this is a direct interference with the internal audit function. He is alarmed by this. In his correspondence, he said he felt moved to raise the issue with Ms O'Sullivan and that, in his view "...the Head of Internal Audit has acted in good faith. Therefore I have to treat an accusation to the contrary as a very serious issue of principle". He went on to say: "The situation can only be resolved if the assertions made by Mr Culhane are either unconditionally withdrawn or unambiguously overruled by a superior authority." I understand that the remarks were neither withdrawn nor were they overruled by a superior authority. Am I right in that assessment?