Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 1 October 2015
Public Accounts Committee
National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed)
10:00 am
Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I notice also from documentation provided to the committee in the North that Mr. Daly itemised the meetings that NAMA held with various officials and with Ministers in the North. What really jumped out at me here - 11 meetings are cited, I think, between January 2011 and 7 October 2013, the same day ironically as that Northern committee meeting - is that Mr. Daly was in attendance at them and so too was Mr. Cushnahan, as a member of the Northern board. I am particularly focusing in on Mr. Cushnahan because obviously he has been cited very regularly in the midst of this controversy. The Northern Ireland Advisory Committee members met in what Mr. Daly says was a manner that respected no inappropriate or, indeed, illegal dissemination of sensitive information vis-à-visdebtors in the portfolio. We will see about that - that is Mr. Daly's position on it, but they also then attend a whole series of engagements with again Sammy Wilson, Simon Hamilton and Sammy Wilson again and again and again, Simon Hamilton again and various officials. At those meetings how did Mr. Daly ensure that no access to confidential NAMA information was either directly or indirectly given or picked up by these individuals?
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