Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is why I referred to the budget office here earlier. It allows Parliament to hold Government to account on that. We do not have to go back to where we were with the Central Bank of Ireland and the financial services regulator which all operated to a very high standard, but when it hit the fan, it hit the fan, and nobody was prepared for it. Quite frankly, nobody ever cared about what went on at a finance committee for years. It was only about the budget at the end of the day. To an extent, it is the same in this case in that there will not be an issue until the lights do not come on some morning, or they go out some morning. Then we will all be responsible. We all had degrees of access to the information, but we were not suitably qualified to raise the appropriate issues and ask the questions. That is why I asked some of the questions earlier about why we have these gaps in certain areas. I thank the witnesses for their ongoing engagement. The issue is certainly not on the witnesses' side of the fence.