Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

The questions raised by Deputy Ó Caoláin are legitimate. I will ask NAMA, which is an independent body, to examine what he said about the professional advice. In addition, the banking inquiry should provide a context within which the general matters to which the Deputy referred can be dealt with. It is the case, for example, that Anglo Irish Bank no longer retains the original auditors to whom Deputy Ó Caoláin referred. The matters to which he referred are serious and will require investigation both by the accountancy bodies and the banking inquiry which is under way and which will account to this House.

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