That statement is erroneous because in every District Court in the land, and often in the High Court, a judge does decide from the demeanour of a witness whether he is telling the truth. Apart from that, however, do Fianna Fáil members agree with their protégé – who they were going to appoint as Chief Justice and later tried to appoint to an enormously well paid job in Europe, until public outrage descended on their heads – that it was wrong to allow one judge to make those findings of fact about Ray Burke? Is Hugh O'Flaherty representative of the thinking in Fianna Fáil? Or is it the usual thing, that if they do not like the message they shoot the messenger via sophisticated legal reflection by somebody who turns out to represent the intellectual wing of Fianna Fáil? What he said – I say it only because he volunteered it; it would not be right otherwise – was profoundly wrong and was obviously something that was thought out and was intended to undermine the public confidence in tribunals. Tribunals are not perfect.