Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Well, the question was relating to the Department of Finance. And I think that in the case of the Department of Finance, I think they had to have that suspicion or conviction, I don't know which. I mean, I always thought in watching the former Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, before the committee, I always thought that the question that the committee should have asked him that they didn't asking him was that, if he didn't ask Mr. FitzPatrick when he was playing golf with him, why didn't he? I mean, it seems to me that the whole purpose of the encounter was to ask FitzPatrick "What the hell is going on in your institution?" And, you know, I say that without in any way imputing any dishonesty to the former Taoiseach because I believe he is an honest man and I believe that, you know, when the crash happened, he did his best by his lights to do right by the country. But I can't for the life of me believe why there was a mediator running between himself and Anglo Irish Bank and he was playing golf with Anglo Irish Bank executives, that he didn't ask them what was going on.