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
Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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They were in attendance. It seems they sat down for an hour and the IBRC side set out the scéal of what had happened. No files or documentary evidence were produced. That is what this suggests. In fact, it confirms it because no file or review was completed, and that was the review as such. We now have the picture - the Department gets word from the public, alarm bells sound, there are concerns, the issue is raised and raised again at the end of May, the review is agreed and this is the review. How would Mr. Moran characterise that? Would he consider that to be a thoroughgoing approach by his Department, the Department that had concerns about this transaction, an hour's discussion on it but in respect of which there were no files or documents?