Sean Barrett (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Well, then, we wouldn't have had to rescue them and you'd save the €64 billion. Could I bring you to 16.2: "The DOF did not have any legal mandate to undertake its own analysis of the banks’ financial position". Does the Department of Finance not have a financial stability mandate and, in fact, doesn't the Department of Finance, as the custodian of the public purse, commission research on pretty well everything?