David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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I am trying to tease out where exactly that money was spent. This goes back to what I was saying earlier. As members of the Committee of Public Accounts, we are working from a report of the Comptroller and Auditor General that gives headline figures. Our job is to probe those figures and conduct a deep dive in terms of where the money went. There is a headline figure of €31.8 billion paid from NAMA to banks, essentially, to take bad loans off the banks' books. I am looking for a breakdown, in the first instance, of how much went to what banks, and the information is not to hand. I am also looking for a range of the value of those loans, and that information is not to hand. Why was that work not done in advance of today's meeting? Surely, Mr. Carville would have understood-----