Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 November 2016

Public Accounts Committee

Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed)

9:00 am

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We will conclude now. Do the witnesses wish to say something where they were cut short or something else? I do not want a summary of anything. If there is a significant point that has been bugging them and they need to say it, please say so. Perhaps there is none. Unfortunately or fortunately, there will be further correspondence to you and we ask you to bear with us and turn the correspondence around as quickly as possible. You are doing your best at present and we ask that it continue.

The main point I wish to make is that we are seeking some information that has not been made available to us, perhaps for confidentiality or commercial reasons. We need to find some mechanism for access to key documents for this committee. We cannot issue a report on the blind or without seeing some documents that are in the system, only to find ourselves potentially contradicted the following day based on a redacted document we have not seen. You will understand that we wish to have comprehensive information and we will respect any issue regarding publication. Are you happy that you have covered everything?

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