Fionnan Sheahan

Smallest violin in the world, they're playing for Kevin Backhurst.

Oh my, we're the victims of transparency.

How terrible.

I'm not sure too many of the politicians will be impressed by that one.

Their difficulty is that they keep appearing before these Oireachtas committees.

with fresh controversies rather than it just being a routine thing where you're going through what's happening with your reform programme, is there pensions, how are your budgets getting on?

That's fine.

Instead, the items like this are coming to the fore.

Fresh developments last night, actually an interesting take from Mr. Backhurst.

Last week we were told, oh, this all came out because we were implementing a recommendation and so on and so forth and it just happened to pop up and so on.

And last night,

Kevin MacArthur seems to apply.

It actually was the former Chief Financial Officer, Mary Hurley, who wouldn't sign off on the top 10 unless this was adjusted.

So that's a slightly nuanced version of events.

Mary Hurley left the organisation recently.

She was credited by Minister Patrick Grunman with bringing an awful lot of issues to the fore that hadn't previously been heard on.

So it may well be that it was all part of the one piece.

But, you know, little bits of details emerging now that we weren't exactly hearing now.

Yeah, so went on for two hours and they went through a lot of the topics that they're expecting to face today.

Patrick Goodall had asked for incremental breakdown in five grand increments of how many people are on money ahead above 100 grand.