Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 July 2015

Public Accounts Committee

National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014

9:30 am

Photo of John DeasyJohn Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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I have a question for the Comptroller and Auditor General concerning what has been said and reported in the media over the past couple of weeks. I will not attempt to involve him in any kind of political opinion. I know he said three or four weeks ago that he is planning to do the review. He has prepared and planned for that and it was in his schedule. From what NAMA has said document-wise and what the Comptroller and Auditor General has seen so far within the committee, are there issues that are of concern to him? A Member of this House has intimated that the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General does not have the capacity to deal with this as well as the gardaí and the Committee of Public Accounts. I do not know which higher investigative power should be doing it if these three bodies do not do it. Has the Comptroller and Auditor General any concerns about what he has seen and heard in written form?