Paul Coghlan (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I agree with Senator Bradford. Of course, Senators should be considered for the banking inquiry if qualified. I agree that the narrative has been exclusively for Deputies, as the Senator suggested. I think that is incorrect and the Senator is right in that the Whips of this House were not consulted. At least, this one was not consulted. Talking about this subject generally, I am sure every Member of both Houses has at some stage been critical of past practices in our banks, so I am not too sure anyone in either House would qualify. I do not know how that is going to proceed. The people who will be appointed will have to come to it from an independent and genuinely disinterested standpoint. I do not see how we are going to get such a person in either House of this Parliament but I thoroughly agree that both Houses constitutionally are equal in that respect and Members from both should be considered. I do not see that any of them would be suitable. It will have to be some other committee.