John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is also a report from the Comptroller and Auditor General on a North-South body due to be published jointly with a report from his Northern Ireland counterpart on 3 March 2015. It is proposed this committee and the Northern Ireland Assembly's Public Accounts Committee will get a joint briefing on the report at a meeting in Belfast on 4 March 2015. It is proposed the committee will travel to Belfast and back on the same day. The clerk to the committee will be in touch with members to finalise arrangements for the visit.

There is follow-up correspondence from the National Asset Management Agency from our meeting on 18 December 2014.

It relates to the briefing that committee members and other Oireachtas Members received regarding Ms Annette De Vere Hunt. While her name is not mentioned, the issues relate to the processes within NAMA dealing with matters of that kind. I want to put on the record my disappointment with NAMA because of the manner in which it is treating this individual. Despite the fact that a group of cross-party Oireachtas Members were informed, she and her family received an invitation to enter into mediation after some pressure was applied. She told us her husband took his life. Within weeks of her meeting with us, papers were served on her late one Friday night. They were thrown into the reception area of her home. She was given the opportunity to attend a mediation meeting with NAMA after that. I understand that NAMA is now proceeding to court even before it meets her. It is unacceptable that a State body would behave in that way. I ask members to note it. I ask the clerk to express these views to NAMA and insist that it do what it stated it would do, namely, enter into mediation to determine whether this situation can be resolved. It is bringing nothing but trauma and sadness to the woman's life. She has lost her husband. This is another case of the State at war with a citizen and I ask members to consider proceeding on this basis.