David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The matter is not closed. The matter is only closed when everybody says it is closed. It might be closed for the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, but it was not closed for the Committee of Public Accounts which dealt with this in the past. We have said we might come back to it. Therefore from our perspective it is not closed because Mr. Daly is not answering the questions today. He is perfectly entitled not to answer them, but he is not answering them. Therefore we do not know to this day whether the word "boycott" was used, other than what we see in the public domain in the media, where the leaked documents indicate it was.

Mr. Daly is saying that he did not say it, but he cannot say whether he heard it. He is refusing to answer that, which I think speaks volumes.