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

Mr. McCreevy, there would be relevance and I would try to be consistent with all witnesses and I usually wrap up with asking witnesses if there's anything they could offer in terms of advice to this committee to the future - you might just stop the clock there for a moment - because one of the things I would hope that everybody would want to see at the final report when this committee has completed its work is to ensure that the type of trauma and difficulties that was put on the shoulders of ordinary people in this country do not have that revisited upon them again. So, what we ... so I would see a relevance to different decisions made at different times and the systemic consequences of them. That's not to say that you're to blame or to fault, but whether there is a relationship or not a relationship. So, in that regard, I would allow a freedom to be discussing things beyond 2004 that may be related to decisions ... or decisions that were or were not taken during the period leading up to 2004.