Brian Hayes (Fine Gael)

——on the fact that the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform had a meeting on 11 June 2005 with a private investigator? It is not clear whether a notetaker or an official was present at that meeting but will she comment on whether it is a clear material breach of the code for a Minister to attend such a meeting without a notetaker or official present?

Will she further agree that it was not appropriate for the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to meet with such a person, given that the person could well be, if he is not already, a material witness at the Morris tribunal? Will she further agree with me that given that this was only a few days before a significant debate in the other House on the Morris tribunal, for which the Minister has direct ministerial responsibility to both Houses of the Oireachtas, that it was also inappropriate——