Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 May 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Tom Parlon:

Well, I think at the outset, when I was offered a job, I examined whatever legal restrictions or if there was any implication and there was nothing there that I was doing by taking up a job and really taking it over at the end of the year. So ... but no sooner had it been announced and there was quite an outcry of former Opposition people who said it was a dreadful misuse of whatever. And I didn't have any issue with it, I ... as far as I am concerned, you know, I did my duty in OPW entirely correctly and continued to do my duties otherwise and other than picking up some experience, I didn't see any ... I didn't see any conflict. And I still don't.