Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is a direct question and a direct answer, which I appreciate. Mr. Connaghan can understand this from point of view of the committee. We have had a debate based on the letters as to whether people had been informed or it was assumed they had been informed. If we have had this lengthy a debate about that in public, I shudder to think what went on in private. If we can have this level of debate about a word, as to who should have done what or who believed what, and it has taken two hours to get through this in public, I would hope in private that the witnesses would move much more quickly in trying get to the bottom of issues like this. I would be fearful that if the witnesses were not in the public eye, a debate like that would go on interminably. That is a worry.