Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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249. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to news reports in Spain that Deloitte may lose its Spanish licence to operate in the country as an auditor as a result of the very serious violations found by the Economy Ministry's ICAC Accounting and Audit Institute in their investigation of the firm's role as Bankia's auditor, if he will confirm whether these types of measures are being considered, if any adverse findings are made against auditors for the way they audited the Irish banks that subsequently required taxpayers money; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34648/13]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I, as Minister for Finance cannot comment on individual cases, nor do I have any role in relation to the supervision of auditors.