Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We are all well aware of the scandals and the huge difficulty Anglo Irish Bank created. Anglo Irish Bank was a commercial organisation for nearly all of its existence. This is indicative of the general tone of suspicion Sinn Féin has in respect of very important State bodies that do excellent work on our behalf. On the one hand, the Deputy talks about the need for the State to be expanded and the need for the State to do more. On the other hand, she is then coming forward and saying, on the basis of some claims and suspicions she is not outlining in her argument to me, that we should radically overhaul how very valuable State organisations are audited. She referred to a simple change being made in legislation. The consequences of that for organisations like Bord na Móna, ESB and Dublin Bus would be anything but simple. If there are issues of wrongdoing and issues where corporate governance is not meeting the requirements it has, the Government will act. We have an abundance of reports into what happened in RTÉ. I think the Deputy should lay out why it is that she has a general suspicion of our commercial semi-State sector.

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