Rose Conway Walsh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

In terms of the relationship, I ask that this committee recommend the referral of the statutory audit market to the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission. We must stop the nonsense that is going on with these audit companies.

Such companies are many steps removed from the people described by my colleague who appeared before us earlier and are broken people because these big audit companies give advice and endorse companies and we follow along. We pay the money for this. As a Government, we pay them to give us that ridiculous advice on many different companies. It seems like we have not learned anything from the banking collapse and the relationship between the banks and the auditors.