Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I am happy to see an inquiry carried out. The Minister for Finance inherited a relationship framework that was put in place by the previous Government and the Minister for Finance at the time. The purpose of that was to keep politicians at arm's length and for IBRC to conduct its ordinary business without any day-to-day interference by politicians in its affairs, so that it could successfully recover as much money as possible for the Irish taxpayer, salvage as many jobs and businesses as possible, and see those businesses survive and regrow with employment for the benefit of people in this country. That is what the business of the IBRC has been.

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