Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We are now in public session. The clerk has explained that our last meeting was a private meeting and there was no public part of that meeting. It is a decision of this committee that all correspondence must be dealt with in public. This is the first opportunity we have had to discuss this formally as a committee. The consensus is that it will issue today and that the clerk will make direct contact with his private secretary and he will inform us of the outcome of that immediately.