Growing criticism over the botched inquiry into IBRC’s transactions has prompted calls for the Government to prioritise a probe into the controversial Siteserv sale.

The Government’s high-profile investigation into the sale of Siteserv to businessman Denis O’Brien and a string of other controversial deals will not be completed before the election because of a legal brick wall over what it can examine.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has been accused of attempting to bury the IBRC state investigation until after the election after it emerged the inquiry does not have the legal powers to properly examine what happened.

The liquidators of IBRC say they canot give TDs a full list of customers who had loans written off by more than the bank had prepared for.

Minister for Finance Michael Noonan has moved to correct the record of the Dáil - after confirming his Department did, in fact, have important documents relating to the sale of Siteserv.

The Oireachtas Finance Committee looks set to question a number of people in relation to the sale of Siteserv.

The head of the Public Accounts Committee said Michael Noonan is "misleading" people by saying the PAC could investigate the sale of SiteServ.

One Cabinet Minister has said a Commission of Investigation could be set up to investigate the sale of SiteServ.

Fianna Fáil will call for an independent inquiry into the sale of Siteserv by IBRC in the Dáil later.

POLITICIANS are generally accused of having necks as tough as certain unmentionable parts of a jockey’s anatomy. 

Opposition leaders have again said that the planned inquiry into the sale of SiteServ does not go far enough.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has been urged to open a commission of investigation into the Siteserv sale scandal after it was claimed he and his Government “covered up” the issue for three years.

Having read through your reports on the Siteserv controversy (Irish Examiner, April 24) — which seems to consist of little more than a ‘pass-the-parcel’ exercise by the central players — I was left with that familiar sense that ministers in Irish governments carry responsibility for nothing and are accountable to no-one.

Government moves to appoint a former High Court judge to oversee the Siteserv probe prove the wrong people are carrying out the investigation, opposition TDs have warned.

The Minister for Finance has ruled out widening the terms of reference in the SiteServ inquiry to include transactions at AIB.

Judge Iarfhlaith O'Neill has been appointed to monitor conflicts of interest in the IBRC transaction review.

Minister for Finance Michael Noonan has ruled out widening the terms of reference in the SiteServ inquiry to include transactions at AIB.

Siteserve's share register for the period before its sale is to be made public from today.

All relevant details about the sale of Siteserv to a Denis O’Brien-owned company should be made public, Tánaiste Joan Burton has said, amid revelations of a surge in share sales in the month before the first confidential offers for the firm.

The former chief executive of IBRC has claimed Finance Minister Michael Noonan should extend the Siteserv probe to include multi-million euro debt write-downs by AIB and Nama if he really wants to uncover the full depth of the situation.

The fallout from the Siteserv controversy turned increasingly bitter as an angry Alan Dukes moved to dismiss claims of a conspiracy.

Johnny Rotten once hollered into a microphone that anger is an energy but the anger that Alan Dukes expressed at his press conference at first seemed akin to wind energy supplied by a five-year-old blowing the seeds off a dandelion clock.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has insisted that a review of the Siteserv deal can be done at arms length before a full-blown inquiry into the controversial sale is decided on.

A scheme run by IBRC that was ruled unlawful in the British courts is likely to feature in the review announced by the finance minister.

Does the Taoiseach really not understand the laws of this country, or does he just think they are there to be twisted to his will whenever he faces a spot of bother, asks Shaun Connolly

SITESERV can be read as the story of modern Ireland in five easy pieces, writes Michael Clifford

The former chairman of IBRC, Alan Dukes, said today that he is fully confident that an inquiry into the sale of SiteServ would find no evidence of any wrongdoing.

SiteServ owner Denis O'Brien has said he was not in control of the sale process when he was buying the construction company from IBRC, at a loss to the taxpayer of €100m.

Opposition parties have lashed out at the Government’s plans for an inquiry into the sale of SiteServ.

All Anglo deals involving losses of over €10m to the State are to be probed after outrage over the contentious sale of Siteserv forced the Government to try and quell a growing political storm.

Who is to carry out the probe into the sale of Siteserv by IBRC?

Ireland’s State and Dáil financial watchdogs have contradicted Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s claim they can examine the controversial Siteserv deal, saying the issue is outside their remit.

Commercial confidentiality was used to hide deals involving the former Anglo Irish Bank which caused grave concern to civil servants, the Dáil heard.

There’s a limit to what a slightly OCD independent member of the Oireachtas can do on this, writes Alison O’ Connor

LAST year, when the excitement around the appointment of Seanad hopeful and Donegal petrol station owner John McNulty to the board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art died down, the Government knew that it could ill-afford another self-inflicted, embarrassing, and stinking-to-high-heaven controversy.

A proposal to investigate the controversial €45m sale of the Siteserv company to billionaire Denis O’Brien is expected to be put to Government on Monday.

The Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said the "Government has nothing to hide" as pressure mounts to launch a Commission of Investigation on the sale of assets by the former Anglo Irish Bank.

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said the Tánaiste is kicking for touch in not establishing a full commission of investigation immediately.

The Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has said an independent review into the Siteserv deal will take place.

Tánaiste Joan Burton has indicated that she would be open to changing the law to allow the State's spending watchdog and the Public Accounts Committee to examine the sale of Siteserv.

The Department of Finance will release more documents today in connection with the sale of Siteserv.

The controversial decision to give shareholders in the bankrupt firm Siteserv a €5m “sweetener” as taxpayers took a massive loss on its sale has been defended by Finance Minister Michael Noonan.