Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----with the European Central Bank on the promissory notes, for example, which agreement was raised by the Opposition day after day, it will be discovered that the decision was properly recorded. It was read out in respect of every Minister, it was agreed and it will be on the record long after I leave here. I wanted to find out from my Department the location of the files on the bankers who came here to meet the former Government and the evidence on the requests, discussions and decisions. There is nothing but empty space. We need a parliamentary inquiry to call before it the relevant people, including Deputy Martin, who was a Minister at the time when the incorporeal meetings were held, and ask them to give us their best recollection. That is in the public interest. The people in question, the bankers and other relevant individuals should be called before the parliamentary inquiry to give their evidence and the truth of the matter. While the inquiry will not be a court of law, it will be able to deal, in the public interest, with some of the information and the truth behind what happened, and perhaps it will fill in the blank spaces that Deputy Adams and I would like to see filled in.

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