Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 May 2015

Public Accounts Committee

2013 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 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013

10:00 am

Ms Ann Nolan:

That would probably not be quite the full story. I want to be fair to all the people involved. At the time the bank was taken over it was a going concern, and the ordinary course of business was, of course, ordinary banking business. It was, I think, August to September 2010 when we put the bank into wind-down. The ordinary course of business, in extent, changed because, at that point, they were then winding down. This type of transaction was not captured. It became an ordinary course of business and probably should have been captured.