John Cummins (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I object in the strongest terms possible to the presence of Deputy Ó Broin as the Sinn Féin representative. These matters were issued to the general secretaries of the parties and no option was given to the general secretary of Fine Gael to send an alternative person. It is an affront to this committee, to be perfectly frank. I would question what Sinn Féin has to hide now by sending someone like Deputy Ó Broin, who has absolute privilege, to this committee over and above the general secretary of the party. I will be formally requesting Sinn Féin's general secretary comes before this committee along with representatives from People before Profit and the Independent groups. Perhaps we can deal with that matter at the end of the meeting.

I will start my questions by asking Deputy Ó Broin, seeing as he is here, if he has ever been directly employed by Sinn Féin.