Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for appearing before the committee; I very much appreciate it. I have quite a number of questions to get my head around certain aspects.

My first question relates to the capacity in which Mr. Moloney is speaking in front of this committee today. The reason I ask is because the particular circular on guidelines for civil servants appearing before or providing information to Oireachtas committees states:

The following should be borne in mind by civil servants in contacts with these committees:

- a civil servant who appears before, or provides information to, an Oireachtas Committee does so on behalf of his Minister who, as a corporation sole, is legally responsible for the official acts of his civil servants.

Will Mr. Moloney comment on that?