Verbal fisticuffs make farce of Public Accounts Committee

It was farcical. Just after 12pm, the 13 members of the PAC filed into the AV Room in Leinster House to address the media.

Some decked out in their finest business suits, it was not supposed to go like this.

At the launch of the highly leaked report of the PAC into Nama’s sale of its Northern Ireland loan book in Leinster House, members of the committee turned on each other.