Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The contradiction was startling. If they are your people, you should speak to them.

The Minister for Finance is very much in command of his Department. The Government has made a clear decision in the interests of everybody - the taxpayers and people - to have the facts and information provided as quickly and expeditiously as possible. The clear intention is that if Members of the House and its committees, including the Committee of Public Accounts, believe there is something else that should be looked at, the Government is quite prepared to amend the legislation to have, for instance, the Comptroller and Auditor General carry out a further independent, objective analysis of this matter.

Deputy Paul Murphy is like the others. If the Government had decided to have a commission of investigation, he would say he did not want it, call for us to give the facts and the information and accuse us of delaying until after the general election next spring.

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