Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

When Mr. O'Brien was with us earlier in the year, he told us that we would be provided with the report imminently. He then came back and revised his commitment. He claimed that he had not been provided with the report, it had to be given to the people who would be named in it, and there were a whole lot of different things that he had not anticipated. We had him back when the inquiry was announced and told him we could differentiate between what work the inquiry would do and what work the Committee of Public Accounts would do. At no point did he say to us that the work of the inquiry would act as an impediment to us receiving the report. That is a new development today. It is a little bit like the last item we dealt with in terms of the Garda. The approach seems to be whether we can find a way of not doing this.