Donal O'Connor: current Anglo chairman was a senior partner at PWC

The auditing firm and accountancy practice, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), collected fees from Anglo Irish Bank of €284,000 in 2008 incurred during "the normal course of business'', despite also being asked to vet the bank's property loan book last year by the government.

The bank's own auditors, Ernst & Young, were also paid during 2008, but did not get a government commission to forensically examine the property exposures of Irish banks.

PWC collected €50,000 in fees in three months alone, between 26 June and 30 September for accountancy and consultancy work. The annual report of Anglo, released last week, does not disclose the nature of the work. The current chairman of the bank Donal O'Connor is a former senior partner of PWC.

The bank points out that he was co-opted to the board as a non-executive director in June.

Another director of Anglo during 2008, Anne Heraty of recruitment group CPL, saw her firm collect €78,000 during the 2008 fiscal year, down from €263,000 the year before. These fees were incurred during the "normal course of business'', the accounts state. No further information was given.

Last week it emerged in RTE reports that ex-Anglo chairman Sean FitzPatrick received rental income from the group of €31,500 from rentals of a property he owns in London.