Shane Ross (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I do not want to labour the point, but would Mr. Conlan, as a director of the CRC, not have found out how the company which was set up and to which it lent €550,000 was operating and what its relationship was with the company of which Mr. Conlan was a director?

It was very important to Mr. Conlan that the relationship worked. It was very important to Mr. Conlan that it was straight and that it was not conflicted. It seems patently obvious that there was a terrible conflict of interest, but what concerns me is that the board members either were not aware of it or are saying they were not aware of it. Mr. Conlan is saying he was not aware of it.