Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Yes, I am very happy to go back to respond to those comments and I thank the Cathaoirleach for all of them. I want to be clear that in respect of reputations, I was, of course, not impugning this committee in any way. It is interesting that the Cathaoirleach referred to the secret recordings of civil servants in the Department of Health over a protracted period. That is a good example. Civil servants were recorded without their knowledge over a very long period and specific snippets of that were provided to the media. Unfortunately, in at least one case, the civil servants were named. I believe that causes reputational damage. If any of us in going about our business were secretly recorded by our colleagues-----