Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 November 2025

Public Accounts Committee

Exceptional Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Tony O'Brien:

Yes, I would not say we updated it. What we actually did was start it again. I think I have mentioned elsewhere that we could not place reliance on the opening working papers, and consequently we went back to absolute basics. A lot of work was done by our solicitors on records in terms of going back to original conveyancing files and original transactions. I think I have said publicly that there were some instances of properties not included on the list and there were other instances of the same property appearing multiple times. It did not constitute an acceptable basis to go forward as an asset register, so we started from scratch.

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