Shane Cassells (Meath West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Department of Finance officials were also well able to defend themselves and NAMA. If one reads the transcripts of those hearings, one would see a very certain point emanating from those meetings. When we came to our conclusions about procedurally inappropriate events, the language was very thin. It could have been a lot harder. Daniel McConnell from the Irish Examinerreported after the launch about the manner in which Fine Gael handled themselves in this respect and he summed up the whole process with one word at the end of his article - "farcical". Daniel had better get his Thesaurus out tonight.

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