Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

However, huge damage has been done to the reputation of this country by the various activities which took place in the bank. The Deputy pursued the question of my own awareness of this particular matter and I indicated in my reply that I did not become aware of it until the middle of January of this year. Information about the transaction was contained in the extensive PricewaterhouseCoopers report and was referred by my Department to the regulator at that stage in the autumn of last year but the specific character of this transaction was explained to me in the middle of January by my officials.

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