Rose Conway Walsh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Surely that speaks to the problem that we have had all along of the overdependence on auditors, as well as paying them enormous sums to supply a service, and we continue to place full trust in what is given to us. If there is not the analytical capacity within government to see beyond what is presented to us by an auditor we are at the mercy of auditors, in the same way that we were during the banking crisis, when many issues should have been flagged that were not about the status of the banks.