Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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I would love to have a forum where I can ask a question about why public funds were used for security of costs for a case that had entirely private parties. I would love to have a forum where I could ask what conditions were put in place for the use of State resources, for example, that there would be full transparency and no confidentiality clause that precluded State bodies from being transparent. These are normal things that somebody who is responsible for ensuring the public finances are protected should be able to ask. Due to the nature of the Insurance Compensation Fund, I do not have a forum to hold to account anybody for the entire fund and, in particular, for the decisions made to disburse the fund. That is incredibly unusual.