John Perry (Sligo-North Leitrim, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It was a decision of Government to appoint Mr. Ryan as the special investigator on this file. He was appointed by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment to check out the Ansbacher files. In light of the fact that he was a very senior official to get that appointment, that there was due regard, concern and respect demonstrated by him in the conscientious manner in which he carried out the work, and that he still continued with the file up to 2011, it was remiss of all of the bodies involved that there was not closure on this file and, without breaching confidentiality on names and payments to Revenue, it was remiss that there was not an agreement in place between all of the key stakeholders, that would have allowed him to put this into the public domain without requiring the use of the protection of the whistleblower legislation.