Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

There is no question of a political attempt to exclude matters from the terms of reference or to make them less comprehensive than they should be. The terms of reference mirror the concerns of the reports and have been carefully refined by the Attorney General and the Government. This motion was tabled before Fine Gael listened to the authors of the reports, who have clarified a great deal of what was intended by the reports in their testimony before the Oireachtas committee. Apart from being bad mannered, it is an abuse of the good work of Professor Honohan, Herr Regling and Mr. Watson. It is clear the Fine Gael Party did not want a reasoned or informed discussion about the analysis in the reports. The name of the game is political advantage and that is fair enough but we must be clear that this is what is going on.

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