Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 September 2018
Public Accounts Committee
National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2016 and 2017
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 102: National Asset Management Agency Second Progress Report
9:00 am
Mr. Brendan McDonagh:
Right. A new piece of specific information about this is being alleged.
We need to go back and look at the statutory section 172 disclosure which was made. I cannot answer that here and now. I need to go back to the office with my chief legal officer and dig out this information, review it, ask some questions and come back. We have committed to come right back to the Committee of Public Accounts on that. I cannot rush to judgment here and now. It would be wrong for me to do that. When new information emerges, not just from newspapers but also from people contacting us the whole time with information about various letters and assets, we look at it. That is all we can do. I cannot rush to judgment. I am certainly aware of the parliamentary questions. When a new piece of specific information is referred to, I cannot answer on the spot and I cannot rush to judgment.
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