Timmy Dooley (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

You have confidence in a group of people who, on the basis of their own admission and their apology before us here, admitted they did not really do their job to the best of their ability, ask appropriate questions or tease it through. It was a bit like they thought, expected and assumed but did not ask the questions and were not told. Some of these people were appointed at the discretion of the Minister. She can sit here and have confidence in them but Siún Ní Raghallaigh, the former chairperson, made what can only be described as a relatively minor mistake, albeit important at the time, that did not relate to governance, the loss of money or any serious or fundamental issue. The Minister, however, is not able to equivocate on whether she has confidence in a number of people who were responsible not just the for loss of several million euro but also for the loss of confidence in the national broadcaster among consumers, the general public and politicians across the board. With respect, you said at the outset that you want to be transparent and open. I do not doubt that because I have known you a long time and I know you are somebody who wants to get information out there and be clear, concise and transparent, but I cannot understand how you could have confidence in elements of the board that sat around when that went on and recognising the consequence of it. You talk about the consequence of the misinformation that you got. I accept that it put you in a difficult position, and that is not good, but, by God, the organisation and the State have been put in one hell of a bad position because of the failures or inaction of others.