The Fianna Fáil leader says the Government has not secured the ‘gotcha’ moment it had intended from the Banking Inquiry.

Micheal Martin says the coalition had a ‘political objective’ in the timescale it set for the inquiry.

However he says the public are now ‘making up their own minds’ about the events leading up to the crash.

Former Fianna Fáil Taoisigh Bertie Ahern and Brian Cowen, and former Finance Minister Charlie McCreevy, have all appeared before the Committee in the past two weeks.

But party leader Micheál Martin says his Cabinet colleagues have performed better in the eyes of the public than the current Government would have hoped: