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

Having worked with the secretariat when I was Chairman, it would be very wrong to chastise the clerk to the committee and the acting clerk. What happened might have been a blessing in disguise, as we now have the Revenue Commissioners before us and will have ample opportunity to bring in representatives of HSBC once we hear what the chairman of the Revenue Commissioners has to say. In all honesty, the volume of work being progressed by the Chairman would keep five or six clerks very busy.