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:

The Deputy needs to understand the workings of the institutions in the North. The Department that was in the lead regarding all of this was the Department of Finance and Personnel. Sammy Wilson was the Minister of the Department. Sammy Wilson was one of many within the DUP who led the charge against the peace building and conflict resolution centre at Maze-Long Kesh. Sammy Wilson, with others, put pressure on Peter Robinson, who was in favour of the project, to turn him against the project.