John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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I accept that, but to try to minimise it by describing it as a moment in time is a bit much. I am reading the documents to inform myself and taking out of them the view that the Department was not up to taking on IBRC and its determination to run on its own without departmental interference. I take out of the documents the view that it did as it pleased to a point. They tell us it had no regard for the Minister or the officials. Mr. Moran is saying this; someone in the Department is saying it. If the public are reading this, they will inform themselves about how the sales or transactions went. However, it is clear that for a long period of time the Department had no control and it appears from the documents that it had no confidence in the CEO. That is what appears in the documents and it is mentioned a few times. If that is not the case, when briefing the committee, Mr. Moran should please say so. We are asking for the documents to be informed. If they are informing us incorrectly or if at the time they were written wrongly or should not have been written, that should be said. Otherwise, those watching these proceedings will take a different view and we want to inform the public.