Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 October 2016

Public Accounts Committee

Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed)

11:00 am

Photo of Michael NoonanMichael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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Certainly someone had knowledge of the finding about the sum of money which the Comptroller and Auditor General would put in his report. The piece also said that the Comptroller and Auditor General had found irregularities in the way NAMA had proceeded. That was untrue. Effectively, the only accurate bit of the leak was the sum of money, which was close to €200 million. I do not know if that was based on a document or some kind of verbal hint to a journalist. After that, we checked and we can account for every document that was in the Department of Finance on the matter.