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

-----difficulties, that this would run right through banks, and, in your own statement, saying that you were the senior official in the Department of Finance, assistant secretary, who had the responsibility for banking, finance and the international division of the Department of Finance, but you ... you were cognisant of it but you didn't have any lead role in that area. On examining that now, and bearing in mind that this inquiry is about not just the past but the future and avoiding mistakes of the past and ... and other judgments, was that structurally ... was that structure, as it was laid out then, the best structure that could have been arrived at?