Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I asked Mr. McDonagh to tell me if I was wrong on this. I opened the conversation on this by saying that I had not read the full transcript and that I was just going to quote this from it. Mr. McDonagh said he disagreed with the transcript and that is fine. That was not said in open court but he is saying it here now. All I will say on that, and I will conclude on this point, is that these issues possibly highlight a point I made at previous meetings, possibly with Mr. McDonagh at the Committee of Public Accounts. I think NAMA and the IBRC are in a similar space from the point of view of the Irish taxpayer and I believe if would be better - Mr. McDonagh cannot decide on a policy issue, he has to work within the legislation but we are a policy committee - if the two organisations were under the one umbrella and working together rather than, on occasion, working to separate agendas.