Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Chairman is absolutely right to be cautious. I have underlined the sentence that it written consent must first be obtained. The Chairman has to be cautious but this should have been sorted out by the board that was sending us the report. It should have stated the board had got the consent of the people it commissioned and paid, using taxpayers' money, that we could now use it and that it apologised for not giving it to us before now. We are sitting here now waiting for written consent. The Chairman is absolutely right but it just adds to unaccountability, all in the guise of accountability and hours of questions and answers in the Dáil yesterday. This should have been before us.