Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 February 2017
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised)
1:30 pm
Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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-----because they were negotiating with NAMA, people look for meetings with me and I meet them. I protect myself and I protect the Administration by making sure there is an accurate note taken and a minute generated. That is all I can do. My diary is the subject of freedom of information so that one can go back in it and say why one met one person or another. I meet them because it is my job. I cannot have a third party or a committee of the House deciding who I should or should not meet.
On what was leaked to the newspaper, there was an adverse finding found against NAMA as well to the effect that it was inappropriate for it to meet Cerberus. How in the name of God could NAMA have sold the stuff if it did not meet the people who were buying it? What kind of a finding is that?