Josepha Madigan (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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We must be very careful. I am not taking sides at all here, but looking at it very objectively, NAMA has come before the committee and given evidence, and we have a letter from Tom Rice. He states he will not give evidence on very serious assertions he put in his letter. If he cannot make it to this committee room, somebody else should be in his stead because he has put his name to this letter. Of course, we do not cross-examine people as such as we are not a court, but he must be in a position to give oral evidence to back up what he states in this letter. It is very dangerous for this committee to accept evidence or submissions from NAMA, which takes the trouble to come in and talk to us, but yet the committee is not getting anything from Tom Rice. What can we do about that?