Shane Ross (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

This is crazy. We have a situation where last week we asked for a letter to be written to invite people to appear before the committee. Does the Chairman see what is happening? It was not written on the decision of one of the secretariat. They decided not to write it for some reason. Perhaps they are too busy. I specifically asked, as one of the questioners at the meeting today, that a representative of HSBC Dublin be invited. That is conveyed to the Chairman for him to either endorse or not endorse it. The Chairman says they should come and the clerk to the committee does not do it. The committee is being upstaged by the secretariat. Whether it likes it, it must invite the people we ask to be invited.