Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party)
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I thank members for their observations on this process. We have written back to the three bodies requesting again that they attend and reminding them of the powers that exist with this committee under Standing Orders to compel witnesses to appear. We will wait for the responses to come back but I would be of the mind that if the responses are similar to those we have previously received, we should invoke those powers available to us. As members have outlined, it is a public interest case because it involves public money. This committee has a job and role to do in that regard. We will conduct that role responsibly but will also be responsible in the way we engage with those agencies.

I will suspend momentarily before we bring in our witnesses from the Land Development Agency and reconvene.