Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 October 2016

Public Accounts Committee

Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed)

10:00 am

Mr. Willie Soffe:

The end of September meeting was the last meeting of the Northern Ireland advisory committee. At that meeting, there was a presentation made on where the University of Ulster was on the project at that stage. It also included Northern Ireland Housing Executive information, but still at a high level. At that stage, as the Deputy knows, Project Eagle had been completed since June. Our contribution was, we felt, significant to putting all this information together. The real beneficiaries of this had to be the Northern Ireland Executive which could get a picture of residential zoning in the whole province so that, for instance, if it was trying to attract industries to west of the Bann, it would know whether there was a possibility of people living in that area, as well as having sites for industrial development.