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

This tripartite agreement was one of the central reasons we had the hearings and that is why this document is important. It will be important that we are able to refer to it in the report we ultimately write. We all want to bring this whole dialogue with RTÉ to a conclusion from the point of view of the Committee of Public Accounts. We are coming towards that stage now. We are not requesting this document for no reason. We are requesting it because it is really important. I do not think there are any circumstances under which we can accept a situation where we cannot use something in that report. We are used to dealing with information or correspondence that is provided to us and that we view privately, without those documents we refer to ever being made public. That would be the scenario we would be looking at here and that is a very reasonable way for us to proceed.