Seanad debates

Wednesday, 13 November 2002

Lindsay Tribunal Report: Motion.

 

I am concerned – public opinion is also concerned about this in regard to a number of areas – about the clear absence of identifying who was responsible. It is not just a public sector matter. There are people who claim status and, in some instances, income, which they justify on the grounds of the responsibility they bear. In the case of the recent scandal involving one of the big banks, for instance, there was a similar ethos. People were awarded huge salaries because of their alleged huge responsibilities. It turns out that those responsibilities seem to be theirs only if matters are going well and once they go wrong they are no longer responsible. If one is paid to be responsible then one is responsible for what is done in that public body whether it works or not. One cannot selectively claim the credit for the good things and say that he or she is not to blame for a problem because they did not know about it. The board of this public body was not investigated.

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