Colm Brophy (Dublin South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The ECA does not have the audit function of a private company. I know there was an allusion made to that. It is the job of an auditor of a private company, when management comes out with a line like that, to say “Well, do you know what guys?” There are certain recent examples in this State where perhaps the auditors should have stepped in at an earlier stage and said that while it may not be their job to tell someone how to run the business, it is also not their job to put their name to the way the business is being running it either and, therefore, they are off. I know we cannot change the EU structure. It is just a point I wanted to make.

Deputy Howlin indicated.