Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

That is the big news here and it says it all, frankly. The warnings issued in 2008 have proven to be correct. That is quite stunning but it has taken us until now to get to that truth. We could not get that information last week or in the Dáil today. We have to have scoping exercises and all sorts of hullabaloo but actually, we just needed to know whether the issue was with the American outsourced laboratories. We have just discovered that it was and in that context, there is almost nothing more to say. I cannot understand how those laboratories are still doing our smears.

Mr. Breen is saying that all of the cases involve American companies. He has also said - and I believe him - that the State Claims Agency would never have sought a gagging order and that it was CPL and presumably the other laboratory that were seeking gagging orders.