Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I did not think there would be any questions left but clearly there are. I wish to address my first questions to Ms Geraldine O’Leary. I picked up on what she said yesterday about the invoice. She stated:

I am not normally somebody who raises invoices. That is not part of what I do. This was an unusual situation where I was asked by the director...

That is directly what she said.

If this was something that was not unusual or that was routine, I would not expect her to remember it but this was unusual. This was really unusual. One does not normally do this. Ms O'Leary was asked to make out an invoice for "consultancy" services. Did she know there was a problem with this last year - not this year - when people internally started raising concerns with her? Did she believe there was a need to keep this under wraps at that stage?