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

The Senator has made a number of accusations, which has been characteristic of this issue for the last year. There have been accusations and counter accusations of a personal nature. I am not engaging in that. I am trying to assess whether it could have been restored as a board with the appointment of new members. I came to the clear position that was not possible. In such circumstances, I feared we might see the continuation of accusations and counter accusations and speculation about members of boards or management or other involved parties. I have never engaged in that kind of thing and I did not want that to dominate rather than the effective running of IFI.