Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

No, I felt it required a face-to-face meeting, as I said, because these conversations had happened in front of my officials. There was now a question mark over what had been said repeatedly to me, so I thought it warranted having the officials there. During the course of Thursday, the language that was used was that she "imagined" she had told the former Secretary General. That made me even more cautious about phone calls.