Bobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will add my voice. Everyone else spoke so I suppose I should say a few words. I do not know if there is any use in having any more witnesses in here because I think we have gone nearly as far as we will go. As the previous speaker said, if we bring in further witnesses, will they stall and will they just give us the same rhetoric and the same answers? We all know what happened in Stepaside - everyone knows. The birds on the wire know the decision was politically motivated. Are we wasting our time here? The Chairman has put up a strong work programme between now and Christmas and we have a lot of work to get through. Are we going to waste time here bringing in witnesses and getting them to repeat what they have said? We are going to get the same answers and go nowhere.