Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms Kennedy and Ms Donovan for coming before us this morning. The purpose of this inquiry is severalfold. It is not just to look at the past and put pieces of a jigsaw together but also to take those lessons from the past and give them a context, into the future, so the crisis and the hardship which was visited upon the Irish public and the Irish nation is not revisited upon their shoulders again. Are there any lessons which the witnesses can draw from that crisis period and provide to this inquiry this afternoon in terms of either the media or, generally, going into the future, what we need to be doing as a country?