Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 November 2020
Public Accounts Committee
Business of Committee
4:30 pm
Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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We should ask him about that because some of those bonds were not worth the paper they were written on. The taxpayer had to pick up the tab and local authorities, out of their own budgets, had to finish off the estates. The bonds literally evaporated and had no great legal standing.