Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 November 2013

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

10:15 am

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

What we did over a succession of reports over four years was to try, in effect, to bring the whole thing together because it was a very confused picture. It was difficult to try to summarise all of the interventions. There were transfers of funding between one entity and another, multiple sources of funding to support credit institutions and so on. The report that this committee is preparing is drawing the threads of that together, based on the various hearings that were undertaken. It is certainly something to which we will constantly have an eye but it would be something that would fall to be reported in 2013 and that is not the timescale this committee is looking at.