FG slams €9.5m paid to departing directors

FINE GAEL last night said it was wrong that €9.5m was paid to the same Anglo Irish directors who had brought the bank to its knees.

The party also criticised the Government for releasing a heavily-edited version of the PricewaterhouseCooper audit of Anglo, saying the coalition’s tactics “did not inspire confidence”.

Party finance spokesman Richard Bruton was reacting to the publication of the two documents on Anglo — the bank’s annual report and the audit of the bank conducted by PwC.