John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for their opening statements and ask them for permission to publish the statements. Is that agreed? Agreed. If Ms Kelly and Ms Keane have a copy of their statements, perhaps they will circulate them to the members and to the press gallery.

Before calling Deputy McDonald, I must say something to Ms Kerins. There might be people who will hang on her every word and might consider her comment on what we published on the website as a bit of a ticking off for the Committee of Public Accounts. I must say that in preparation for this meeting we had to ask each of the agencies for a submission. As we do our business in public, that submission is then published on our website. If she has a concern about that - which she has articulated - then I suggest that she take the matter up with the agencies that provided us with the information. We would not be aware of the commercial sensitivity or otherwise of the documents. Generally speaking, if there is something sensitive in them, it would be redacted for us. We published the documents as we got them from the different agencies.

I ask Deputy McDonald to commence.