Marc MacSharry (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----it is a point that I wish to make, and it is worth doing so today.

Some €6 million of the people's money has been spent on this, and I wish to put on the record of the House that, regardless of whether the Seanad continues until the next Seanad election, it should debate the issue of the inadequacies of the Act and in particular the process which the inquiry followed during its earlier stages. I have had concerns about the influence of external bodies on the inquiry process, the way in which a whistleblower's protected disclosure was dealt with and how the Houses of the Oireachtas Service then sought to throw that whistleblower under a bus. That in itself requires an inquiry and an investigation.