Sources: Current draft of the Banking Inquiry report has no recommendations

Update 12.30pm: The Banking Inquiry chairman Ciaran Lynch has said the committee "owes it to the Irish people" to finish its final report into the crisis.

Deputy Lynch was speaking ahead of a meeting where members will consider more than 250 amendments to the final report.

The report does not yet contain any recommendations, but the chairman said they would be written once the Executive Summary was finalised.

Earlier:

It is understood the latest draft of the Banking Inquiry report does not contain any recommendations at all.

The news comes as members prepare for a make-or-break meeting which is likely to determine whether the final report will ever be released.

There are about 340 amendments on the table for members to consider today, in a meeting that is likely to stretch on into tomorrow and possibly even Sunday.

However, those amendments do not include the executive summary which was only finished last night and which members will only get to see this morning.

Sources also say that as it stands the draft report does not include any recommendations at all.

Those recommendations - and any changes to the executive summary - may now have to be thrashed out by members in their meeting today.

Sinn Féin's Pearse Doherty has tabled around 80 amendments and he says if they are not adopted he will not be happy to sign off on the report as it stands.

It is now also possible that the final report will be deliberately bland, so that the inquiry can also release supporting documents and evidence that might help the public make up their own minds.