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

No. I gave every opportunity, with the appointment of that senior counsel, for a review to be conducted, with the recommendations of that review taken with a view to examining whether the board could work its way through the difficulties. Earlier this year, however, it became abundantly clear that was not possible and that, in those circumstances, the provision of section 18 of the Act should be applied.