Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Those are the very words. This was bord snip territory. No criticism of the author is in any way implied but at the time that was the background that informed the desire to amalgamate agencies. We will share the report with the members of the committee, but I do not believe it should be centre stage. In any event, the need to act on the recommendations of the Clinch report, which we are doing here, means we should focus on the task in hand and not fight the battles of last year or the past decade, which were due to the financial crash.