Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 3 May 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach

9:00 am

Photo of Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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I will wrap up on this issue. Mr. Fraser said that some of the things are illegal. Sometimes when there is some discussion about that and it is said something done was clearly wrong but it was not illegal. Why was it not illegal? I refer to the learnings from such situations. For example, legislation was put in place following on from the Moriarty tribunal, and the same happened after the Mahon tribunal. Are the findings examined from a Government perspective and are the failures then considered in the context of how it can be avoided in future?