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Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015 (20 Oct 2016)

Josepha Madigan: My last question relates to the Social Insurance Fund. Are the bands sufficiently healthy for the short, medium and terms? What about Brexit? Has the fund buffers against that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015 (20 Oct 2016)

Josepha Madigan: I only want to ensure the fund is insulated from an economic shock.

Topical Issues: School Closures (25 Oct 2016)

Josepha Madigan: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to speak on this Topical Issue, which is of great concern to many of my constituents in Dublin-Rathdown. The announcement of the closure of the Notre Dame schools in Churchtown came as a great shock to parents of students in the schools who were not given any notification that the school was to close. The Notre Dame secondary school has 150...

Topical Issues: School Closures (25 Oct 2016)

Josepha Madigan: I thank the Minister for his statement. I appreciate the sentiments expressed and will convey them to the parents when I meet them this evening. The Minister stated the Department is "awaiting clarification pertaining to the feasibility of development of alternative sites and the timelines for acquisition". Whatever happened in the past has happened and separate questions arise with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Closures (25 Oct 2016)

Josepha Madigan: 236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to accommodate students at a school (details supplied) which is set to close; when a new school is expected on the grounds of the school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32151/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Research (25 Oct 2016)

Josepha Madigan: 449. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a mandate for cancer research into the national cancer control programme, which should be a key component of the national cancer strategy; if not, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31863/16]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2016)

Josepha Madigan: Having a separate meeting will depend on what the HSE says in response.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2016)

Josepha Madigan: We should get its response first and then see where we go from there.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Josepha Madigan: I thank Mr. Collison for his - I was going to say evidence but we are not a court - assertions today and for his opening statement which we all received this morning. I will preface my comments by pointing out that anything I say is based on my own reading of what has been presented to the committee. To me, bearing in mind the Comptroller and Auditor General's report, there seems to be a...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Josepha Madigan: Mr. Daly said that also but he did say, as a concession, that he felt that there should be some tweaking and that he would have applied some tweaking. I am just wondering what Mr. Collison thinks he meant by that.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Josepha Madigan: Is Mr. Collison specifically referring to the board decision?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Josepha Madigan: I have a difficulty with that. I welcome the fact that Mr. Collison thinks that there was room for improvement and that would have been brought forward. However, what Mr. Daly said to this committee is that the board minutes should record decisions, not discussions. He also said that the board decision was unanimous. I would be of the view that it would be a rudimentary exercise to take a...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Josepha Madigan: What does Mr. Collison think of Mr. Daly's response that now he would be happy to provide details of the verbal discussions that took place at the time to the committee. He is now saying that he will provide that. My very simple view is that if he is willing to provide it now, why could it not have been provided at the time?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Josepha Madigan: Does Mr. Collison share that view?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Josepha Madigan: I appreciate that and I think it is helpful that Mr. Daly made the remark to the effect that in future, details of those discussions should be provided. Details of those discussions, which are the basis for the decision making and explain how people formed their views, should be provided. Mr. Daly offered that to this committee when he appeared before us. Does Mr. Collison share that view...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Josepha Madigan: Mr. Daly -----

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Josepha Madigan: That is very helpful and I thank Mr. Rooney for that. Mr. Daly also said that running a commercial entity is about making commercial decisions. Does Mr. Collison agree that this was done on this occasion with regard to Project Eagle?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Josepha Madigan: I have a difficulty - perhaps Mr. Collison will clarify - with NAMA's assessment of itself. We have all heard the phrase, "self praise is no praise". In terms of the credit grading, for example, Mr. Collison spoke about 76% being applied to Project Eagle, as the lower debtor credit rating and 36% for the rest of the NAMA portfolio. Is NAMA itself reaching those conclusions? Who is...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Josepha Madigan: That has a knock-on effect in the context of the €190 million that was possibly lost, in terms of the valuation of the properties.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Josepha Madigan: It is NAMA itself that -----