Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 December 2014

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Context Phase

4:35 am

Mr. Rob Wright:

I saw no evidence. Frankly, I think there was a broader concern that was not just driven by fear. There are ways to do business, meet the real interests of freedom of information and yet give clear, strong advice to the Minister, and that was not done. A number of people raised that with me, I was preoccupied by it and I have looked at in detail since then. I would say, and have said to the Secretary General, that he should be sure there is a process that meets the needs of the law and lets somebody push the right button if there is a problem, or go back to Parliament.