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

Mr. Derek Moran:

To go to the heart of this, many of the problems were around the change of Anglo Irish Bank, or IBRC, from something envisaged as a bank to something that was winding down. The transactions we are talking about here are quintessential to a winding-down process, which became the normal course of business and started to fall outside the relationship framework in terms of access to information.

It started to fall outside the relationship framework in terms of accessing information on it. We will probably continue to disagree on the question of passivity.