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- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: You left but did not talk about it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: The first discussion was at 8 a.m. the next morning?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: Would it be fair to say or assume that Mr. Declan McCourt was hearing about this change for the first time?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: And Mr. Seán FitzPatrick as well?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: Mr. Maloney is not aware of any contacts between Mr. McNamara and either of those two individuals prior to that meeting on 24 October?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: Did anyone talk about objective bias at that meeting on 24 October?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: But not the word "objective"?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: That was not discussed. In respect of the minutes of the meeting of 24 October, paragraph 5.2 states that the authority's valuation is suggesting a reasonable figure at €375 million. If we look at paragraph 8.1, we can see that the board agreed that the tender bid should be in the sum of €411 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: The executive is recommending €375 million and the board arrives at €411 million. I have two questions. How did we get from €375 million to €411 million? Are the minutes making a distinction between what the executive thought was appropriate and what the board thought was appropriate?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: The first question was how did we move from €375 million to €411 million?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: No.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: Is Mr. McNamara making a distinction in the minutes between the executive and the board and what they thought was an appropriate bid? If the board is saying that Mr. McNamara can go to €411 million-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: At the time, the board was not in dispute with the executive.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: Paragraph 8.1 states that if Mr. McNamara had some additional information which convinced him the bid should be increased, the board agreed that he could be allowed to increase the bid as he sought fit up to a maximum of €437 million. What does that mean?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: You did not go into the details of why he came up with €437 million. It was his valuation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: If one looks at the figure communicated to the Minister, which we accept was a mistake and which was rectified but in my opinion only at the eleventh hour on 24 October, we are a long way from €220 million and even €375 million. We are talking about a figure like €437 million. When Mr. Bradshaw was before us, he put it that 50% of a large number was the same as 25% of a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: He was making the point that 25% of €400 million was going to come in at around-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: We were talking in rough figures but he did make the point that in terms of what was being sought in terms of sanction from the Department, even though the size of bid had increased dramatically, it was basically the same thing because the percentage that was being taken in a joint venture had decreased.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: I was confusing the two transcripts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: Does Mr. Maloney accept Ms Moylan's view on that?