Dan Boyle (Green Party)

Those who attended a recent meeting of the Joint Committee on Finance and the Public Service will have heard the Governor of the Central Bank saying he favours the model that is being adopted in the United States, which has some private elements but is largely public in its format. I am confident the tribunal of inquiry, when it is formed, will have large public elements. Can Opposition Senators square the Official Secrets Act 1963, which applies to people working in the Department of Finance, the Financial Regulator's office and the Central Bank, with a fully public inquiry? I would like to know how that circle can be squared.