Bernard Allen (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)

I want to raise another issue. PAC also wrote to the Minister for Finance to ask that the roles of the Comptroller and Auditor General and PAC be taken into consideration in the drafting of the National Assets Management Agency, NAMA, legislation to protect the taxpayers' interest in this potentially massive cost to them.

Can I have an answer to both questions, and in respect of the second will the Government accept the recommendations of PAC that it and the Comptroller and Auditor General would have a key role in monitoring the activities of NAMA?

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