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

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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The legal mechanism under which the Minister put in place this process was via legislation, and he issued a ministerial order for the project to be carried out by the special liquidator. In the interests of the judge, the Department should tell him when it meets with him that it will pay him directly, because it is not in the judge's interest, in the inquiry's interest or in anybody's interest that he be on the payroll of the special liquidator. I hope Ms Nolan will take that point on board.