Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I listened to the way Deputy Ó Murchú forensically went through the timeline. I have never heard the amount of phone calls and contacts between chairpersons, former chairpersons, assistant secretaries general and former Secretaries General. Last Thursday was crazy. For you then to make a decision to go on national television knowing everything that was happening, why did you not press pause? If you thought the chair had made mistakes, surely out of respect for the lady you would have given her an opportunity to come in front of you. Why did you not pick up the phone yourself? You said all along that your communication was not with the director general but with the chair, so why did you not communicate with the chair?