Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 30 May 2019
Public Accounts Committee
Business of Committee
9:00 am
Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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I refer to one sentence in the report that encapsulates this matter. Professor Gurdgiev referred to the consequence of no committee of inspection, which the Chairman, as an accountant, will be very familiar with, along with the Comptroller and Auditor General and others. Professor Gurdgiev stated: "As a consequence of the failure to properly account, analyse, assess, challenge and-or monitor the cost the interests of the Irish taxpayer, and ultimately all creditors of IBRC, have not been/are not being adequately protected."