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

As I said in my statement, it was a pre-arranged interview. These issues emerged on Thursday and we were dealing with a number of phone calls through the officials. I felt it was worthy of a direct, face-to-face meeting with all of the officials who had been involved in the meetings on Wednesday and Monday. That is why I requested that meeting. I thought it would be wrong for me to simply pull out of an interview that was pre-arranged. Rather than a rushed meeting on a Thursday night, I felt that a detailed meeting on Friday morning was required to clarify a number of errors from the meetings on Monday and Wednesday.