Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 November 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

Photo of Shane CassellsShane Cassells (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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Okay. To explore those unique elements, the Northern Ireland Executive Minister, Mr. Sammy Wilson, appeared to like the prospect of an exclusive deal with PIMCO. Obviously, that did not come to pass. The deputy First Minister, Mr. Martin McGuinness, who appeared before the committee last week, spoke about his exclusion from conversations with the First Minister and the Minister of Finance in the North in respect of this and Cerberus. What was the role of the Northern Ireland Executive members in expressing preferences to Mr. Long on who should be a preferential bidder?