Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

With the sanction of the Government, the Department is recruiting an in-house banking analyst to analyse bank matters. That person will be appointed as a civil servant within the Department, although it was not possible to appoint such a person by way of transfer from an existing Department. I was advised at the outset of the banking crisis that the Department required such advice, and that the advice was required in any event for the protection of both the Minister and the Department.

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