Rónán Mullen (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I assumed that Deputy Kelleher was not referring to me, so I thank him for clarifying that. Dr. Boylan's email reached me very shortly before the committee today. It is the Chairman's call to read it into the record so soon. As I have said, I have no issue with that. A longer period of time has elapsed before I got my response in and this is why I am very grateful to the committee for allowing me - in the spirit of fair play - to not have to wait two weeks before rebutting what I regard to be a completely ungrounded criticism. That was my only reason. I am sorry that Deputy Coppinger wishes that I had emailed the whole committee at the time I emailed the Chairperson today, but I thought that this decision seemed to be in the remit of the Chairman. I too want to apologise to our guests today because I have no wish to hold up their presentation.