The Oireachtas Banking Inquiry has withdrawn a direction issued to former PTSB executive Peter Fitzpatrick to provide a written statement following intervention from the Director of Public Prosecutions.<\/p>\n
Following a decision by the Committee on September 3rd to maintain a direction for Mr Fitzpatrick to provide a written statement to the Inquiry, Mr Fitzpatrick then applied to the DPP for a declaration under section 72 of the Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Act which, if given, would require the Committee to withdraw the direction concerned.<\/p>\n
Having considered the lines of inquiry on which the Committee directed Mr Fitzpatrick to provide a written statement, the DPP said the evidence sought by the Committee could reasonably be expected to prejudice the prosecution of Mr Fitzpatrick and issued a declaration to the Committee to withdraw the direction.<\/p>\n
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All general enquiries should be directed to the Committee Secretariat.<\/p>\n
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Committee Membership<\/strong><\/p>\n Deputies<\/em><\/p>\n Ciar\u00e1n Lynch (Chairman) Senators<\/em><\/p>\n Sean D Barrett The Oireachtas Banking Inquiry has withdrawn a direction issued to former PTSB executive Peter Fitzpatrick to provide a written statement following intervention from the Director of Public Prosecutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7552,"href":"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550\/revisions\/7552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inquiries.oireachtas.ie\/banking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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