Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 December 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2016
Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Liquidation
9:00 am
Mr. Des Carville:
My colleague is, if the Chairman will pardon the pun, advising me that the expression used was that we were advised that the interests of the State would be best protected, so "advised" rather than "precluded" is the word used. I am not going to go against legal advice and the Department is not going to go against legal advice from the Attorney General's office.