John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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At a certain point the Department made a determination that Anglo Irish Bank was not forthcoming enough with regard to its decisions and transactions. Mr. Moran has said that the Department then decided to put an official in on the board to keep an eye on things. The board did not like it. It begs the question whether it should have occurred much earlier. That is the issue. Therefore, we go back to Siteserv and other transactions, and we now have a public inquiry into whether the public achieved what it should have achieved through the sale of that. The public did not expect the Department to fall down so badly so quickly after what occurred. The requisite scrutiny was not there. The Department changed it, effectively, at a certain point, but I do not believe that it was there. I think the Department fell down.