Lynn Ruane (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I think it is important to say that there is a very clear strategy in my eyes to undermine this process every step of the way. Pulling out of giving statements at this committee is part of that wider strategy to undermine the work that has been happening and to undermine the Chairman. Everyone was asked to submit recommended witnesses and if it was broken up proportionally, the people that are saying that it is biased submitted a certain number speakers. If that was divvied up around the room everyone got the same amount of speakers. It is a clear strategy every week and we are giving them time to rehearse it, which is eating into the time for the people who are here who are willing to give their time. I will be critical of the people who pulled out because there are people who agree with them who depended and wanted them here to hear their evidence. They are failing to provide that side of the argument. If they do not want to be here they should not be read into the record.