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- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is from a buyer's perspective-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: And from a seller's perspective-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: When it suits, apparently.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: One is a constitutional office.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: As a matter of fact, to keep ourselves on the strait and narrow, when the Comptroller and Auditor General carried out the audit in 2014, it noted that NAMA had incurred a large loss on the sale and that the process had been compressed. In addition, it had a concern about the circumstances surrounding PIMCO's withdrawal from the sale competition. The Minister is correct to say the report, as...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, I accept that. That is consequent to the report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is why the report was necessary.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Chairman, I must intervene. The recommendation of Mr. Cushnahan did not go through the Northern Executive. For the purposes of clarity, it was a unilateral suggestion from the then Northern Ireland Minister for Finance and Personnel, Mr. Sammy Wilson MP, and the Minister, Deputy Noonan, should know that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: My questions are for the Chairman, not the Minister. I appreciate it has been a long afternoon. Can we ask the Minister to appear again, if the committee so requires?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: There are issues. We are at an early stage of this process and, therefore, we will need the assistance of the Minister.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: I acknowledge the officials will appear again. The Minister stated that to intervene or to direct a cessation of the Project Eagle sale would be beyond his remit and he went so far as to say that it would be illegal. We need advice and clarity.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: We need a legal opinion on that.
- Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: It falls to me to conclude the debate on our motion. I will do so by firstly thanking people for their contributions and acknowledging people who came along. I also want to make it plain that at no stage did I or any of my colleagues set a hostile tone nor would we. Why should we? This issue is far too important for all of us, not just as public representatives but as human beings, for...
- Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: I move:That Dáil Éireann:notes that:- 2016 marks the 10th anniversary of the publication of the Report of the Expert Group on Mental Health Policy entitled A Vision for Change, which laid out a pathway to progressive, modern and recovery-based mental health care in Ireland; - despite plans for its complete implementation by 2016, much of the strategy is incomplete and many of its...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Really? How kind of the Taoiseach.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: They were not going to hostels. That is an entirely different issue.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Who was in government last year?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Who was in government last year?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: We will see. The jury is out on that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Simon Community survey found that 87% of rental properties are beyond the reach of people who depend on State housing benefits. This was raised earlier. It also found that less than half the number of rental properties are available than were available in May 2015. The Simon Community is deeply and rightly concerned about the ongoing reduction in the availability of homes to rent,...