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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Will the contract be put out to tender or will someone just be appointed?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: How long will that take?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Therefore, the person to be appointed will review all of the information and documentation and report to the committee and we will then decide on the witnesses who may need to be called, etc.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Will hearings take place?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Has a timeframe been set for completing this body of work?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: In terms of launching the report, what will be the position?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Therefore, we will probably receive a draft report early after Easter-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: -----and take matters from there.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: I am merely stating the first cut-off point will be consideration of the report from the rapporteur.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: One expects it to arrive mid-April.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts and Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 6 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Financial Outturn for 2011
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 3 - Banking and Insurance Measures
Chapter 5 - EU Financial Transactions (7 Mar 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: I want to touch on a few areas. I want to go back to the issue of Mr. Michael Torpey. Is it something on which the Department is working through? When did Mr. Torpey transfer from the NTMA to the banking unit in the Department of Finance?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts and Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 6 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Financial Outturn for 2011
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 3 - Banking and Insurance Measures
Chapter 5 - EU Financial Transactions (7 Mar 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Would Mr. Torpey have been involved? Would he have day-to-day dealings with Bank of Ireland itself, let us say, when he came over into the banking unit?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts and Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 6 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Financial Outturn for 2011
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 3 - Banking and Insurance Measures
Chapter 5 - EU Financial Transactions (7 Mar 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Would he have been dealing on a day-to-day basis with Bank of Ireland?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts and Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 6 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Financial Outturn for 2011
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 3 - Banking and Insurance Measures
Chapter 5 - EU Financial Transactions (7 Mar 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: He went out on holidays on 14 December last year, he had a month's holidays and he gave the Department notice when he came back. Since he joined Bank of Ireland, has he represented the bank in dealing with the Department on the various banking transactions?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts and Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 6 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Financial Outturn for 2011
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 3 - Banking and Insurance Measures
Chapter 5 - EU Financial Transactions (7 Mar 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: There is a question to which I am leading and it is obvious. The Department is looking at the corporate issue and I am purely fleshing it out. Looking at it from the public's viewpoint, the Department had someone who headed up a division that dealt with shareholders within the banks, one of them being Bank of Ireland, who is now joining Bank of Ireland. Will he be in a position to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts and Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 6 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Financial Outturn for 2011
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 3 - Banking and Insurance Measures
Chapter 5 - EU Financial Transactions (7 Mar 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Effectively, he will dealing with staff with whom he would have worked in the division in the Department two or three months earlier or staff who would have reported to him.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts and Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 6 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Financial Outturn for 2011
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 3 - Banking and Insurance Measures
Chapter 5 - EU Financial Transactions (7 Mar 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: I would have concerns in that regard. I understand how it operates. This is in no way about the individual or the Department. In terms of something that is so specific, the restructuring in the banking sector here is unprecedented. Here we have an individual who was heading up a division which was dealing with the banks and who, within a month's time, could be dealing with the same...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts and Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 6 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Financial Outturn for 2011
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 3 - Banking and Insurance Measures
Chapter 5 - EU Financial Transactions (7 Mar 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: I was acting as substitute.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts and Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 6 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Financial Outturn for 2011
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 3 - Banking and Insurance Measures
Chapter 5 - EU Financial Transactions (7 Mar 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Agreed.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts and Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 6 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Financial Outturn for 2011
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 3 - Banking and Insurance Measures
Chapter 5 - EU Financial Transactions (7 Mar 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: I preface that by saying that I have no issue with staff going from the public to the private sector. We need that interaction. Mr. Moran referred to whether they were entering something that is new. For that, there must be corporate governance structures or, for want of a term, "procedures", of which the public can be confident.