Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

No, let me clarify. I am not identifying the person here today but I am making it clear that senior officials, certainly not anybody in this room, made it very clear to me that if the wording was not to the satisfaction of what the House – they - felt was safe; that they had, under Standing Orders – I have not checked the Standing Orders - the authority to take our draft report to the CPP and it would decide whether it could be issued.

I am now making it very clear as Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts, before this report is issued, that the question of legal challenge was raised with me by the Minister for Finance; NAMA raised with me that it was considering the issue; and senior officials in this House said they would consider their approach in terms of not allowing-----