Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 8 May 2014
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2012
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Finance Accounts 2012
12:35 pm
Shane Ross (Dublin South, Independent)
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They do not want to release it because they think it would affect the stability of the banking system in Ireland, which is a fairly strong statement. It is in reply to a question from Martina Anderson, the Sinn Féin MEP. It is a fairly strong statement to the effect that the dangers that existed in 2010, which were obviously referred to by Jean-Claude Trichet in a letter to Brian Lenihan, remain. Otherwise, he would release the letter. If it were all over it would be historic.