Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 November 2012

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 4 - National Pensions Reserve Fund
Chapter 25 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2011
National Pensions Reserve Fund Commission - Financial Statements 2011

11:20 am

Mr. John Corrigan:

We propose insisting on that when we re-tender these services. Regulatory sign-off is not necessary. As acknowledged in the comments we made to the Comptroller and Auditor General, this would represent a significant change in industry practice. Given what we know now, under the old arrangements people cannot be trusted and when €100 million comes in, €7 million is shaved off it. That is clearly unacceptable. If the global custodian arrangement had applied, the invoice from the external broker would have come in to the global custodian. It would have clearly stated €100 million and that would have been it.