Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)

He wrote that to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance and the Public Service. In the context of what the Taoiseach said about the compellability of witnesses, will he arrange to give the Whips, or certainly the Labour Party Whip, some advice as to how the Government and the Chief Whip intend to proceed so that the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance and the Public Service, which is the appropriate committee in regard to this issue, can put questions to people from Anglo Irish Bank? We seem to be at an impasse in that the committee can no longer ask any questions, partly because the director has sent this opinion to the committee.

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