Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

As the Minister demanding transparency, I cannot switch being honest on and off when I want to. I was asked questions in relation to the board. The board and the chairperson of the board is the direct relationship, so I had to be transparent on the programme.

It was a case of I just could not express confidence in someone but I was doing everything I could under repeated questioning to not say, "I have no confidence", because I wanted to afford the opportunity to speak to her on the Friday morning. As I said, part of having absolute confidence in a chair is to be able to rely on accurate communications. That is of paramount importance. In this entire crisis, the establishment of facts and the transparency around facts is what will lead to the reform. I had-----