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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: All of this is in the context of €437 million from Mr. McNamara and the only sheet of paper we have to the Department of the Environment is €220 million.

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

Paschal Donohoe: We have gone through the entire analysis of what has happened and I have just tried to establish what happened. I want to go back to one point Mr. Bradshaw made and will end 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: If the Chairman is agreeable.

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

Paschal Donohoe: I appreciate that Mr. Bradshaw but alongside that, a point we have just discussed, is that the board itself - I am making this statement back to you because it is the discussion we have just had - I am not drawing any inference from it - decided that there was no conflict of interest and sought legal advice after that.

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

Paschal Donohoe: That is exactly what happened. That is fine. I want to conclude all of this with a statement Mr. Bradshaw made in his opening statement in which he said the State did not lose any money on all of this. It is correct to say, from the figures he presented, that the Dublin Docklands Development Authority did not lose any money on it.

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

Paschal Donohoe: It did, excuse me. The point Mr. Bradshaw made is that the State did not lose money as a result of the DDDA's purchase of the Irish Glass Bottle site, in fact it made money. The point he referred to here is that the Dublin Docklands Development Authority did lose money but on the other side of the ledger is the money the Dublin Port Company made. Based on that, he is concluding that the...

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

Paschal Donohoe: The other part was the involvement of NAMA in all of this and the fact that it ended up being involved in the purchase of the site that was bought for €411 million which is now valued at massively less than that.

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

Paschal Donohoe: If Mr. Bradshaw includes that in the balance sheet that he has proposed here, the State did lose money.

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, in fairness, has responded to an assertion I did not make. I have been at pains in the past two hours to ask nothing but questions.

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 sure Mr. Bradshaw will acknowledge that we will draw our conclusions at the end of all this, once we have talked to everybody.

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

Paschal Donohoe: I have been really careful in that regard and I hope Mr. Bradshaw appreciates that.

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

Paschal Donohoe: I have done all I can to give a balanced appreciation of this.

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

Paschal Donohoe: Sure, I am just asking Mr. Bradshaw if he believes given everything that has happened that the State did make money overall.

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

Paschal Donohoe: I have been very careful.

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

Paschal Donohoe: I understand the mathematics of this perfectly.

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

Paschal Donohoe: My question is whether Mr. Bradshaw still stands over the belief that the State made money 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 thank Mr. Bradshaw for answering all my questions.

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

Paschal Donohoe: No, thank you.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: Any attempt to understand the human condition and what it means to be human must focus on the role of empathy, the ability to imagine the circumstances of another and to envisage their pain, conditions and hopes. Empathy is central to our efforts to create rules and norms for our society and to live peacefully with those we do not know. It demands that even if we do not know our neighbour,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Light Rail Projects Status (27 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: 71. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a report on the progress being made to date in the development of the LUAS Cross City project. [31078/13]