Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 December 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2016
Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Liquidation

9:00 am

Photo of Marc MacSharryMarc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I understand that. It is not the rates per hour. We know those. It is about how many people are working at those rates and who is checking the amount of people per task. How many people are involved and how many hours are they putting into particular tasks, and who is checking that and scrutinising it? In the absence of a committee of inspection I am not sure anybody is. The case being taken prevented me getting the answers I wanted last Friday. I received waffle answers to the 20 parliamentary questions I asked on 9 and 11 September, about having regular updates and meetings and if the Department has issues it can raise them there, and about commercially sensitive stuff that the people are entitled to know, even though we only know the cost per hour. Because of the amount of money involved in this the public is entitled to an awful lot more, and the complexion and choreography of correspondence this week does not give me any confidence that there is not something to see here. What have we got to hide?

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