Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It was in a position to make very good recommendations on how to make changes and improvements for the future. I suggest to the Taoiseach and the Government, in a spirit of co-operation, that the Bill represents a far better framework for conducting an inquiry into the banking sector collapse than the proposed parliamentary inquiry.

Quite simply, it does not have the teeth or wherewithal to hold people to account and make adverse findings.

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