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

I will stop Mr. Soffe there. This is not the first occasion on which the defence of NAMA has been premised not on substantiated facts from NAMA but on what I regard as an outright assault on the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General. I can give Mr. Soffe an example. In his statement, on page 7, he makes the following assertion: "The C&AG’s view on the management of conflicts of interest reflects a subjective opinion exercised with hindsight by the C&AG." That is an extraordinary remark to make. It questions not just the competence but also, in fact, the diligence and even the integrity of the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General. Mr. Soffe has no basis for making that assertion.