Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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I was one of the members who agreed that the meeting should be deferred, partly for personal reasons in that I was attending a funeral, but I did not agree to it being deferred for political reasons. That would have been wrong. I think the Chairman is doing himself an injustice in that regard. It would have been the wrong precedent to set. The meeting was scheduled to take place yesterday and I agreed that it should be deferred for two reasons, the other being - it is also important - that we did not have enough information and that information was coming out. I also felt we would not be able to complete the reports yesterday as they were unfinished. There are many aspects involved, particularly the national broadband plan, at which we need to look. The wrong message would have been sent.