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
10:50 am
Mr. John Corrigan:
The Deputy's question is an excellent one. This was certainly a fraudulent activity. As the Deputy has suggested, the key issue is whether this was a relatively isolated incident. It was perpetrated on other clients. How high up in the corporate structure did this go? What are the governance and control implications of this? Those questions need to be answered, but we cannot answer them. That is why I referred to the report of the FSA, as the regulator. We have written to the FSA to establish formally our interest in its investigations. The view we have taken is that we have to wait. It is important to emphasise that we have reserved our position.