Derek Nolan (Galway West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

That brings us on to the next point. He stated that he could call it anything and that he was a senior employee in SIPTU. Clearly, Mr. Merrigan had an enormous amount of leeway if he believed he on his own could simply set up a fund with millions of euro going through it. I am trying to imagine a workplace with someone coming in, running this programme and having this money going through an account of which he is administrator, without mentioning it to other colleagues and without their being aware that it was going on.