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Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: I want to be very clear on this. Is Mr. Bradshaw telling me that the information was not shared with the board in this meeting or is he telling me the information was shared but he cannot remember?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: I want to be very clear on this point. Is Mr. Bradshaw saying he cannot remember if he said it or that he said it but Mr. Bradshaw cannot remember what he said?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: At some point Mr. Paul Maloney moved to him.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: Is Mr. Bradshaw saying that it was the chief executive who made that decision?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: Mr. Bradshaw said: "Paul moved to Bernard McNamara".

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to move on to paragraph 3.2 of this document, which I will read into the record.After a careful consideration of the proposal and subject to being satisfied that the proposed involvement of the authority in the tender process and that the future development of the site would not breach public procurement rules, the board agreed that the executive would open negotiations with a...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: So the advice on public procurement was gained after this meeting.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: Is that not putting the cart before the horse? The board was having a meeting regarding a bidder and Mr. Bradshaw is telling me he cannot remember who the bidder was. However, it is fair to assume there was a single bidder. Then he is saying they went to get advice on public procurement after this meeting.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: This is a fundamental point. A year had elapsed between the sub-committee meeting and this meeting. The sequence is as we just discussed. The chief executive, Mr. Maloney, walked in and referred to a single bidder and the board subsequently got advice on procurement policy. Should it not be the other way around?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: Would that not have been all the more reason to get advice on procurement policy? This was a vast project.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: I stress I am not making any conclusions at this stage because we want to talk to everyone.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: I am just asking Mr. Bradshaw questions to get everything out in the open.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: He is answering all my questions and I thank him for it. I wish to reconfirm something. Regarding the confirmation of who the developer was, it is Mr. Bradshaw's recollection that the board was not informed at that meeting. Is that correct? Is he unsure on this?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: I want to find out everything.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: I move on to the next meeting that took place at 8 a.m. on 20 October. Section 1.2 of the meeting's minutes confirms that the authority was in negotiations with Mr. Bernard McNamara regarding a joint venture agreement to purchase the Irish Glass Bottle, IGB, site. At some point between 3 and 20 October, the board was presumably informed that it was Mr. McNamara.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: I am referring to an earlier comment by Mr. Bradshaw regarding his relationship with him. Could he clarify what his relationship with him was?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: What is Mr. Bradshaw asking us to assume?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: Mr. Bradshaw is not confusing me at all.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: I am just asking questions to establish everything and Mr. Bradshaw is answering them clearly. I want to restate for the record that the totality of the contact that Mr. Bradshaw had with Mr. Coulson consisted of meeting him at one social event organised by Anglo Irish Bank and the dialogue relating to the purchase of this site.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: So we have everything that happened between Mr. Bradshaw and Mr. Coulson?