Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

When we have to extract information it feels as if we are not being given the picture and that we have to paint the picture ourselves from the details that we extract.

The approach was bad. People are losing faith in institutions, whether it is the Garda Síochána, religious organisations or the likes of the banks, and the universities sector has certainly played a role in undermining public trust. One of the things all of these have in common is that they were previously regarded as institutions which could have been trusted. Rebuilding that trust will be important for all of the witnesses who come before us. They should be very cognisant of that when they come before us in future. I will leave it at that.