Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 May 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2017
Chapter 22 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council

9:00 am

Mr. Derek Moran:

Deputy MacSharry referred to my colleague, Mr. Carville, who came in here to that hearing. That is when we had the team here. His point was we have a good story to tell and are happy to share that, but the cases then stopped us. The legal advice stopped us from having that discussion. We find ourselves going around in circles and it is not terribly satisfactory from anybody's point of view.