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

The legal advisers may have said they had taken charge of the case and Departmental officials may not discuss it. If I was in a car accident, my insurance company would take charge of the case and tell me not to discuss it. That is the insurance company taking charge. We understand the position.

I referred to the second sum of €280 million. Why is Mr. Carville free to discuss these commercial aspects of the liquidation when he is not free to discuss other aspects of it? Where has the Department drawn the line between what it can discuss commercially and what information it can and cannot place in the public arena.

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