Robert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I direct two questions to the Comptroller and Auditor General. I do not know the detail of what Deputy McDonald has been presented with but presumably if a whistleblower has been badly treated, the new legislation in that regard applies if matters were pressed in that way. I remember trying to press the Central Bank on credit unions and being very frustrated at the lack of answers. Given the difficulty of our questioning the Central Bank, to what extent can the European Central Bank, which is not an institution for which I have any great love, examine the operations of the Irish Central Bank?