John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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I have never experienced the kind of misinformation and disinformation that I am now hearing. The Deputy is speaking out of both sides of her mouth. At the very end of her comments, she mentioned the option I had mentioned. That was an option given to us on the first day. It was the second recommendation, to be taken after we had dealt with the Revenue Commissioners.

If we consider that we wanted to proceed beyond that, we had the option of applying through the Committee on Procedure and Privileges for a resolution to be laid on the floor of the Dáil to deal with all these matters. Very conveniently, Deputy McDonald did not mention that on the floor of the Dáil yesterday. We decided as a committee that we would wait until Revenue came in and then make a decision with regard to that resolution. The Deputy conveniently ignored that decision that had been made by this committee. Rather than having commentary going back and forth between the Deputy and myself, I will ask the Clerk what were those two recommendations and to confirm that those were the two recommendations made by the legal adviser or the Chairman and that we had agreed as a committee that we would make a decision on that after Revenue had come in today.