Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Friday, 20 December 2013
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
NAMA - Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
12:10 pm
Mr. John Moran:
Yes. An appeal was then conducted by a separate officer who re-adjudicated on the issues. An appeal was then made to the Information Commissioner in April last. There have been, therefore, a number of months during which the Information Commissioner has been looking at the file. The point I made earlier is that, with the passage of time, the nature of confidential information is such that some of it becomes less confidential while the rest remains as confidential as previously. That process is ongoing and the sooner it is completed and there is an adjudication on these issues, the sooner we will release the information in a safe manner, provided the Information Commissioner agrees to allow it to be released.
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