Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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Yes, but I am also referring to my understanding of the private document I read. I say that because I want people to believe that in all the sources available to me, I can find no corroborating evidence for the answer that is clearly given in question No. 4. In fact, it is troubling that this reply would be given in the documents provided to us by RTÉ. Of all the different answers, that is the one that jumped out at me most. I saw no evidence of an agreement. I saw clear statements by RTÉ at that meeting in the public note provided to the effect that for RTÉ to do so in writing would be tantamount to a guarantee and RTÉ could not do that. It leaves us with a difficulty of reconciling the answer to that point with the evidence before us. That is my first point. Second, it is worrying that this answer has been supplied, given that the same information is available to those who supplied these answers.