Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 May 2015

Public Accounts Committee

2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013

10:00 am

Photo of Mary Lou McDonaldMary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It would be fantastic, for the purposes of this committee, if, in a co-operative relationship framework with the clerk to the committee, we could be given the information. I do not know if that is possible but we might return to that point.

Let us move on. The documentation we have suggests, as Mr. Moran said, that there were ongoing concerns and worries. I presume that coming away from the review, which was not really a review, on 11 June the Department still had worries and concerns. It is now May 2015. Can Mr. Moran tell me what happened in the intervening period from 2011 into 2012? This is the bit that concerns me. There was no proper review and the Department had not got any clarity, satisfaction or comfort on any of the issues. What was going on in the meantime in terms of the Department getting to the bottom of these matters prior to the freedom of information releases made to Deputy Catherine Murphy and others in the media? Will Mr. Moran give me an account of what his Department did in the meantime in the intervening two years?

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