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The commission probing the sale of Siteserv to Denis O’Brien has been running for six years. But what has it achieved? It is due to publish its report on the deal this month, but it still has not interviewed either Micheál Martin or Michael Noonan.
It has now reached day 2,129. It has cost an estimated €70 million and counting. It has produced eight interim reports, but not a single final report in any module. And yet, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has still not given his evidence in front of the IBRC Commission. Nor has the former finance Michael Noonan, or other potential witnesses. Six years after it was set up, it is still only on the first deal it is tasked with examining – the sale of the utilities and infrastructure company Siteserv to the businessman Denis O’Brien. The Commission has been granted extension after…
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