John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The committee is dealing with this matter at the moment. It relates to the work of the previous Committee of Public Accounts, which asked the Department of Finance for documentation on the bank guarantee, the night before it and how decisions were reached. The committee received a considerable amount of documents from the Department but never finished a report on it. This committee intends to complete a report, linking it to what happened, bringing it up to date and linking it to a report from the Comptroller and Auditor General. Many of the documents were heavily redacted. I can understand that they may have been redacted at the time on the basis of commercial sensitivity or a legal issue with regard to particular documents. Will Mr. Moran undertake to examine the documents provided to the previous Committee of Public Accounts at the time and consider giving us the document without redaction? Will Mr. Moran examine the other documents that may have been uncovered, whether between Ministers or between officials, that may be of interest to us in the context of the report on the banks, the financial collapse and the bank guarantee? It always puzzles me that we do not know who was in and out of the Department on that famous night. Will Mr. Moran examine the records of the Department in case it is of help to us for the report?