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

No. 3A.5 is correspondence dated 15 April 2013 from Mr. John Moran, Secretary General, Department of Finance regarding the provision of information requested at the meeting of 21 February 2013. This is to be noted and published.

No. 3A.6 is correspondence dated 12 April 2013 from Mr. John Moran, Secretary General, Department of Finance regarding the provision of information requested at the meeting of 7 March 2013. This is to be noted and published. As we are drafting a report on the work of the Committee of Public Accounts on bank stabilisation that we hope to publish in May, the information contained in the correspondence will feed into the report. I ask the clerk to go back to the Department in respect of the redacted information that was supplied to the previous Committee of Public Accounts on the guarantee as this is directly relevant to bank stabilisation. It is important that we return to Mr. Moran on the basis that we have requested that the documents provided to the last committee meeting that was heavily redacted and request same to be provided to us with perhaps less redaction because we want the information which may not be as commercially, or otherwise sensitive, now as it was then. The information would be relevant for the report that we are concluding and it is important that it is provided to us.

We also asked Mr. Moran on the day if there was a note taken of those who attended meetings over the period in the Department. He was asked to check that out. I ask again that we remind Mr. Moran of the need to provide the information because it is helpful to the report that we are currently undertaking and will provide to the Dáil in May or June.