Mr. Noel Kelly:

As Mr. Tubridy said earlier, I do not do interviews. That is not what I do; it is not my job. That is what Mr. Tubridy does. That is what his job is, and it is the job of the fantastic people with whom we work and their great teams. The last two and a half weeks have been absolutely horrendous, as Senator Murphy said, on family, on my children, on my business and on my name. We came here today to put everything that we had and that is exactly what we have done. As Mr. Tubridy said, he left everything he had on the floor. We have put everything we had into this. We have gone through everything, everything, everything. When the statement came out from RTÉ on 22 June, intentionally or unintentionally, we asked them - we had to get our lawyers to do so - to please inform us when they are sending stuff out. That is why I kept it putting into correspondence. The answer was "No, no, no". It is David and Goliath. It is just going into a vacuum. Hopefully that will change. What happened was that we had half an hour's notice. We asked whether we could see it. When we eventually saw it, we asked whether they would put in the correction but they did not do so. The interesting thing about being an agent is that I am the only person that the people we represent have. I am the shop steward. Where was the duty of care to Mr. Tubridy over the past three weeks? Who reached out to see how he was, and how his family was? This is not a pity party - we are big boys - but it has been pretty horrendous. I would not wish it on anybody. I thank the committee because we believe in the House. That is why we have come here. We have not spoken to anybody other than the committee. That is why we have come here. We believe in the House and we believe in the process. We thank the committee for giving us the opportunity. It is really appreciated.