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

Perhaps my visual idea of this is wrong, but both the entities could be in the same building. Is that how this will play out in the short term? It is pretty difficult to go up the lift to the third floor while someone else is going to the fourth floor. There is a kind of human engagement that does not create that kind of separation. We often call it Chinese walls. We come across it routinely in the Committee of Public Accounts. The one consultancy firm could perhaps be doing work on the same thing on two sides, which on the face of it looks like a conflict of interest. How are such conflicts avoided in this environment?