Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 November 2016
Public Accounts Committee
Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed)
12:30 pm
Mr. Martin McGuinness:
No. To go onto that ground is to speculate. All that I have factually done in addressing this committee is to outline what I believe was an important context during the course of 2013 when a serious situation developed between the DUP and Sinn Féin over the DUP reneging on a significant agreement to develop the Maze-Long Kesh site, a site that could have brought 5,000 to 6,000 people into employment and resulted in the building of a conflict resolution centre. At one stage many years ago, the former First Minister described the prospect as a tourist mecca. It was a major issue between the DUP and us and it certainly soured the relationship to a large degree.
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