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- Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: That would have happened anyway, for God's sake.
- Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: Does the Comptroller and Auditor General have the legislative basis to do it?
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: As the Tánaiste knows, over the past number of days the sale of Siteserv by IBRC to Millington, an Isle of Man company owned by Denis O'Brien, has been the subject of much controversy. At the time of the sale, it was in debt of up to €150 million. It installed Sky boxes, fixed traffic lights and had contracts with the ESB and Bord Gáis Energy. After the sale, it went on to...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: Paddy knows very little about what transpired here. The only effective way to deal with this comprehensively would be to have an effective and quick commission of investigation inquiry, under the existing relevant legislation, into all aspects of this deal and the other large transactions the Department of Finance officials had such grave concerns about. The Tánaiste might clarify the...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: I welcome the Tánaiste's statement that she would welcome an independent inquiry by a competent authority. It seems to me that the only competent authority that could deal with this immediately is a commission of investigation established under the Commissions of Investigation Act.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: We are completely in the dark about the Comptroller and Auditor General. The Taoiseach came into the House yesterday and almost plucked something out of the cloud, saying he chatted with the Minister that morning and believed the Comptroller and Auditor General could carry out a value-for-money investigation. The Comptroller and Auditor General could not carry out the comprehensive...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: On a point of clarity-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: There is a big history to it.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: Did the framework say that the underbidder should be accepted?
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: There was no independent review of the deal.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is more phoney politics.
- Order of Business (23 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: Yesterday, the Taoiseach said the Comptroller and Auditor General had the legislative remit to investigate the Siteserv deal. Doubts have emerged about whether the legislative template exists for the Comptroller and Auditor General to do so. I raised it on yesterday's Order of Business and the Taoiseach indicated that it did. I understand the Comptroller and Auditor General is not in a...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: I want to raise the issue of the commissioning of a review and the production of a report on the sale of Siteserv and other large transactions pertaining to IBRC and the decision of the Minister for Finance in that regard. I would make the point that there is a fundamental conflict of interest in allowing KMPG, which advised on the sale of Siteserv, whose personnel were involved with that...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----in defence of the sale but the bottom line is that it was a very strange and wrong decision to allow the company to run the sale rather than IBRC. There was no logic in excluding trade buyers from the sale and the €5 million pay-off proves the point.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: The company had skin in the game and that is why it should never have been let near the sale. Yesterday we had a farcical situation relating to activity on the share register and the promise from the Taoiseach that there would be full transparency.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: Can the Taoiseach assure us today that the activities on the share register in advance of the sale will be covered by the inquiry and will be embraced by the investigation? Can he ensure that in the interim the Government will ensure full transparency into who was buying shares in a company that was going bust-----
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----and full disclosure in terms of the personnel involved and all the activity? Why will the Taoiseach not-----
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----establish a commission of investigation under the Act?
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: By the way, the Taoiseach voted for the bank guarantee and actually asked that the bank guarantee be extended to other banks. So I ask him to stop the hypocrisy. The Taoiseach mentioned that the Government had no wish to cover up. However, it did cover up. The incredible and fraught relationship between IBRC and the Department of Finance was not revealed to the Dáil for three...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----and the Minister refused to pursue that. IBRC has now confirmed that it did not pursue any independent review either. So there was no independent review three years ago despite officials in the Department of Finance articulating-----