It is only right to hold Nama to account

Michael Noonan, the Minister for Finance, told the Dáil two weeks ago that it has become fashionable to criticise Nama. Those who have dared to criticise Nama would suggest otherwise. As both the Comptroller & Auditor General (C&AG) and the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) learned, any negative critique of the state’s toxic loans agency is met with a scathing retort.

Both the comptroller and the committee criticised Nama’s sale of its Project ...