Marc MacSharry (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Following on from the theme of the Government speakers, in particular Senator Bacik, it is my opinion that no inquiry under 2005 Act, no tribunal or no Oireachtas inquiry will give the results all of us deserve and desire quickly enough. As Senator Bacik said, the expedition of a criminal investigation is of the utmost urgency. As somebody who knows very little about criminal law and how the justice system works, I know that what I heard on the tapes in recent days is tantamount to conspiracy to defraud the State. Rather than the grandstanding by the Taoiseach on an axis of collusion or whatever words he chooses to use, whatever happens must focus on these tapes and on a criminal investigation. Let me say as a Fianna Fáil person that if a parliamentarian, a banker, a civil servant or anybody else has to feel the full rigors of the law, then that is what must happen.