David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That is the point I am trying to address. The State went to what I consider to be extraordinary lengths in hiring private investigators to track the movements of these individuals. Incidentally, I am conscious that this practice is sometimes used in cases involving people receiving social welfare payments and, as such, is used in a number of different contexts. In this case, the way in which this was done seemed to be somewhat unusual. Perhaps it has been done before and it would be interesting to find out how many times the HSE and the Department have used private investigators. Mr. Breslin stated the results of the private investigators' work informed the settlement agreement and their work did not find anything of substance. In terms of the good names of the three individuals in question, who may be easily identifiable within their world, is it safe to say that nothing was found in that work to suggest any substantial wrongdoing on the part of those individuals?