Surely they knew about bank tapes

I am more shocked and angry that people like the Taoiseach, Minister for Finance and others, claim that they too are shocked and angry at the revelations from the Anglo tapes.

How can it be possible that after over two years in office Mr Kenny and Mr Noonan didn’t even know these tapes existed? This means that neither of them have actually taken any proactive steps when they took office to find out what information is available and to secure it, even if it never sees the light of day of an inquiry. But I suppose we shouldn’t forget that we are talking about the generation of men who have made it their life goal to create a political system where no one is accountable for anything, and where transparency is ruthlessly killed at birth. What if those tapes had been deleted or the person who kept them never mentioned them?

Yet again what this shows above all is that there is still a golden circle in Ireland and that when a person gets a ministerial office they undergo some sort of mental conversion to become the protector of the insider. It must be smell of the leather in the Merc that triggers it, and issues that would have them screaming just days before in opposition are suddenly of no consequence. If Mr Kenny was really as angry as he claims to be, then Ireland would be way further down the road of public service reform.