Brian Ó Domhnaill (Fianna Fail)

Every Member of this House and the other House has been highlighting the need for a strong, independent banking inquiry, including the bank guarantee. Following the expenditure of some €64 billion, one of the committees of the Houses, under the stewardship of Deputy John McGuinness, has published a roadmap for how such an inquiry could take place. I was flabbergasted and taken aback by the comments of a Minister on Sunday. At lunchtime on Newstalk the same Minister lambasted the Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts, the work the committee had done, the recommendations it had made and the roadmap it had set out.