Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Many points have been covered by other Deputies. I want to concentrate on the due diligence that the Department would have undertaken around the legality of this. We have talked about RTÉ, but obviously this was a conversation that was happening within the Department itself. I am trying to understand how it got to the stage of commissioning the senior counsel's report. Was it the case that internal and external advice was sought and then the report was commissioned? I ask Mr. Watt to provide the committee with a quick timeline of events.