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

The individual involved is taking it as a director of the Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation, which is an advocacy group in a sense for people in debt difficulty and mortgage arrears and so on, which would be honourable enough. Obviously this is going to cost money. May I ask formally would the Department consider allowing this committee to make contact with the plaintiff's representatives and see if questions we can put in this forum might satisfy and avoid litigation? It would cost the State very substantially less to do it in this forum if those questions could be asked. It seems to me that the questions I was posing the last day to Mr. Carville would be precisely the ones that somebody would be getting ten grand a day to ask down in the Law Library.