Rose Conway Walsh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The reason I find it incredibly hard to believe is that I have been looking at the documentation, which is about how to conceal this, dripping out the information and having the headlines and everything ready. There is also the language used. To think that it would not have escalated to the Minister is beyond credible. We have the documentation from some of the meetings - undoubtedly we do not have it from all of them - and the progress updates for the audit. In each of them, the numbers were increasing all the time and it was obvious to everybody reading them that there was a problem. The language was about how to drip feed this, address the headlines and the legal process for it. That the boss, the man in charge at the top, would not have known about this or would not have been told is beyond belief.