Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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I thank the witnesses for coming before us this morning. I fully understand where they are coming from in relation to the decision that has arisen over the last 48 hours and I fully accept that the matter needs to be dealt with before the IHRB representatives can openly discuss it. I fully understand their position on that.

If I may return to the issue with the former CEO and why there was a need for a legal agreement. The whole structure of IHRB's organisation is set up in legislation. A clause was put into the agreement to say that no information about the agreement could be disclosed. Surely when the board gets legal advice, that legal advice should incorporate what it can and cannot disclose. Surely the legal advisers must have advised that this information could not be kept from the public domain?