John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am going to interpret and I want the opinion of the witness, that is all. If one looks at the Indecon report it reads like something that should be done in business anyway and there is nothing in it if you had a company that acknowledged how business should be done, how one would want to do it and was open and transparent and so on. The Indecon report sets that out. What was it within Bord na gCon that did not allow the organisation to comply with best practice with the result that we are at this hearing before this committee? Why did sensible people in the industry not understand, even before they went to Indecon, that something had to be done?