‘I would have gone through report’

FINANCE Minister Brian Lenihan’s defence against negligence has been undermined by his own chief whip who claimed he would have read the full report on Anglo Irish Bank.

Chief whip Pat Carey said that he had faith in Mr Lenihan’s handling of the issue but said if he was given the 120-page PricewaterhouseCooper review of Anglo it would not have been his nature to rely on briefings.

“I tend to be awfully boring and read reports from cover to cover. I mightn’t always understand everything in them.