Shane Ross (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

There were many people involved in that who were not aware of what was going on or how decisions were made. Those of us who went to the Department of Finance that night - it had echoes of 2008 - were very puzzled by the fact so little information was given to us, that it was given to us half an hour before the Bill was debated and that the civil servants could not explain the relationship between the Government and civil servants at that time. Let us have an extension of the terms of reference - the Minister can shake his head all he likes - to his own stewardship of the banks and not just that of the last Government.

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