Timmy Dooley (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will reiterate the point I made at the outset, which was in respect of the process of operation, to put it like that. When one looks at this in the context of the board of a private company - which it is not - one would certainly not expect any half-decent private company to be embroiled in a situation like this where people would be retiring or resigning from a board in the way that this has happened.

Again, I ask that the Department at least look at the legislation and at the powers that are available to the board. I cannot draw any parallel that I know of any half decent-sized company ever having to go through a process like this now, but there may be examples.

Because of the way the process has gone and the situation we find ourselves in; is that a weakness in the legislation where there is some lacuna there which has allowed this to happen?