Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The essence of today was to tease out matters. At the previous meeting, the phrase used was essentially "We bought it for nothing". No one present got that. That was the phrase that people believed could not be left to lie without the relevant details being teased out. We have done a bit of that today. I am being upfront. It was that phrase that prompted some of our questions.

We will suspend. I thank the witnesses for their attendance. Those from UL and UCC are free to leave. The Cork and Dublin institutes of technology will be before us at 2.30 p.m. All of the witnesses will take their seats, but we will start with the Dublin Institute of Technology, DIT, because some of its delegates have flight arrangements. We want to get the DIT people away first, but both groups will attend the same session.