Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

My legal team will deal with the correspondence. However, when I am told by eminent legal people that something is improper, and that the only way to test this is in court, I do not have any other alternative. As Deputy Kenny said, this issue has not just jumped out but has been in circulation since September 2006 that if the tribunal did not change its procedure I would have to deal with it in another way, as other Deputies have done. The same is true in respect of documentation. The tribunal is free to continue to question me and there is no reason for any delay. I am due to appear before the tribunal next week. There is no reason for it to delay that. This concerns one issue. The tribunal is free to continue questioning me so there has been no delaying of its work. What the tribunal is not free to do, based on the advice received by me, is to insist on asking me to go outside the constitutional provision or to insist that I put before it documents to which it knows it has no right or to which it ought to have no right. This is what I have been advised and I cannot go outside that advice.

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