Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Can the witnesses confirm for the record, and I know it because I was there at the time, that it was an instruction effectively that pay would be cut, exactly as Mr. Bell outlined? Will they confirm that it was an instruction that did not leave the witnesses in any doubt that there was anything else they could do and that it was not just an implicit but an explicit instruction?