Businessman Denis O'Brien has called for Mr Justice Michael Moriarty and his legal team to step aside from the Moriarty Tribunal.
In a lengthy statement issued this afternoon, Mr O'Brien suggests that in their place, an overseas independent retired judge should be appointed to conduct a review of all the sworn evidence and the tribunal's conduct.
The Moriarty Tribunal is investigating the decision in 1996 to award the state's second mobile phone licence to the Esat Digifone consortium, which Mr O'Brien led.
Referring to a statement issued by Mr Justice Moriarty on Friday in which the judge defended himself and the tribunal, Mr O'Brien expresses disappointment that it made no attempt to explain issues before the tribunal which have given rise to recent media debate.
Over recent months, Mr O'Brien has vigorously and publicly challenged the provisional findings of the tribunal, which were issued confidentially to parties in late 2008.
In today's statement, Mr O'Brien claims that had he not relentlessly pressured the tribunal to call further witnesses since then, the tribunal's final report would by now have been issued containing those findings.
Mr O'Brien claims the result would have been a travesty of justice for himself and many others, including 17 civil servants.
