Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)
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The statement that madness is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results has been attributed to many people, from Sigmund Freud to Roy Keane. With regard to Professor Hardiman's statement that Ireland has been very poor at ensuring that the appropriate lessons are learnt when things go wrong in the public service, can she provide examples of specific failures from which we have not learnt lessons or maybe have learnt lessons? What lessons would she say need to be drawn from the banking crisis?