Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Sometimes it is adversarial in this committee but it is nothing personal. Mr. McKeon does not want to identify the stakeholders. He made a very important claim here. We are the only constitutional committee of the State that tries to save taxpayers' money so it is not credible for Mr. McKeon to come in here and say that stakeholders are advising their clients to hold back information for the appeal. It is not credible for him to say that is true but he cannot identify them. I ask Mr. McKeon to reconsider that and if he is not prepared to answer that question, give us a list of the stakeholders. We know Deputies are stakeholders because clients come to us. Who are the others? We might ask a group of them to come in here to allow us ask them if they hold back information or advise their clients to subvert the process and cost the taxpayer €4.2 million so that they can make 57% of the right answers because they did not have enough information. That is what Mr. McKeon is saying is the reason, and we want to get to the bottom of it.