John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----and the kind of oversight that the State provided when it came to something that was owned by the public. As I said to the witnesses earlier, it is ironic that before concluding a banking inquiry into something that happened historically, we have initiated another inquiry into a bank that we did own.

I asked a question about the framework that existed initially. I understand what Ms Nolan is saying, but a lot of people have reached the conclusion that, regardless of the issue of commercial freedom, the State and the Department of Finance did not act accordingly in terms of the oversight of IBRC, and had to change the framework document subsequently. That is really what happened.