Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There are investigations going on in the jurisdiction in the North into allegations that were made here. Deputy Adams makes the point about the Comptroller and Auditor General. Let me repeat for the Deputy that the Comptroller and Auditor General and NAMA appeared before the Committee of Public Accounts on 9 July last year. At that appearance, the Comptroller and Auditor General indicated that his next section 226 report would look in detail at a sample of NAMA disposals and a sample of properties that it held for investment, and, furthermore, that a specific review of Project Eagle would be undertaken under section 9 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Amendment) Act 1993. The Comptroller and Auditor General is the appropriate independent statutory body here and the Committee of Public Accounts is the committee that holds that responsible and accountable in the eyes of the taxpayer. From that point of view, the draft report has been presented, there are comments on that going back to the Comptroller and Auditor General, and that report will be obviously completed, presented to and discussed by the Committee of Public Accounts, on which Deputy Adams's party has representation. I am quite sure that there will be a detailed and thorough discussion on the Comptroller and Auditor General's report into Project Eagle.

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