Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

-----but somehow the people who concocted this deal knew that the public was always going to pay but they were going to conceal that fact. There has been some questioning of whether it is only the director general and maybe the former CFO who knew. People are asking if it is credible that nobody here knew, and that is a very reasonable question. The witnesses' answer seems to be that the witnesses were following orders and were in silos but they did not understand what was going on. That is not great and does not reflect well on the functioning of the executive. If we accept what the witnesses have said, then we have to find out from the people who concocted this deal what their motivation was. The public are owed that explanation because we are being told today that the people here were not in on the concoction of this deal. Do the public have a right to know who concocted this deal and why, and why they sought to conceal it?