Ms Justice Mary Laffoy:

Deputy O'Connell has asked me to speculate on a lot of things and I am probably not going to go very far down the speculation route. On the first question, my understanding of it is that the citizens chosen were in the middle. Am I right in interpreting the question like that? I do not know. I must say that honestly because, as we said in relation to another question, neither the secretary nor I engaged in debate with the members on the topic on a personal level. However, the answer to the Deputy's question is that we adopted a process to choose the members of the assembly by engaging RED C which was in accordance with the resolution of the Oireachtas. On that basis, and as we went that route, one has to assume we ended up with 99 citizens who reflected the general public. I cannot put it any further than that.