Micheál Carrigy (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)

On the presidential campaign, I welcome the comments Mr. Yates made with regard to that "smear the bejaysus" comment. The reality was, and he was correct to say this, that was seized on by the Catherine Connolly campaign. It was used, blown up and amplified to ultimately damage the Fine Gael candidate, Heather Humphreys. It was out there across all platforms, in the space of minutes, and hundreds of thousands of pages, shares or whatever it was, for certain political parties to make it out that this was something Fine Gael were behind. He might have said this earlier, but will Mr. Yates put on the record that was not the case? It was not anything that was coming from Fine Gael.