The Public Accounts Committee is to get legal advice in private later today on whether they can question officials from the Department of Finance on the information they gave in a previous hearing about whether the department had received documents from IBRC on the sale of Siteserv.

Yesterday, Minister for Finance Michael Noonan corrected the Dáil record to say documents relating to the sale had actually been received by the Department.

Labour TD Joe Costello said it was only appropriate that officials from the Department would also correct the record of the Public Accounts Committee.

Fianna Fáil's Sean Fleming said he thinks the Secretary General of the Department of Finance can be questioned on the matters surrounding this, despite the establishment of the Commission of Investigation.

However, the Committee's chairperson John McGuinness asked that the Committee wait until it hears legal advice on the matter before they comment on the matter further.