John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the secretariat for organising these speakers and the witnesses for attending.

I hope I am considered reasonably objective. There is a clash of styles here. The witnesses will not have viewed our reactions to the past six or eight meetings we have had over a number of months. I find Dr. Komrad hard to take seriously as a witness. I hope he is not offended by that but the manner in which his presentation is written involves very dramatic language. I am not implying it is false or whatever but from an academic point of view, there are few citations in what he has given us.