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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Nitrates Action Programme Implementation (25 Oct 2016)

Peter Burke: 237. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will extend the slurry spreading period by an extra two weeks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31653/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Provision (25 Oct 2016)

Peter Burke: 280. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if there are supports available to help local authorities and persons obtain CPOs to buy vacant and derelict key sites for residential development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32012/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Regeneration Projects Funding (25 Oct 2016)

Peter Burke: 381. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if funding for the village renewal scheme is to be increased in 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31889/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (25 Oct 2016)

Peter Burke: 395. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an appointment for an MRI scan in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31500/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (25 Oct 2016)

Peter Burke: 396. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a procedure in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31518/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (25 Oct 2016)

Peter Burke: 501. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite the placement of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath in community care as previously advised by a Minister of State in June 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32150/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Applications (25 Oct 2016)

Peter Burke: 576. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the sports capital grant application system will open; the supports in place to assist small clubs complete their application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32016/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Army Barracks (25 Oct 2016)

Peter Burke: 618. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he has considered renting block O or block P of Columb Barracks, Mullingar to a club (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32137/16]

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)

Peter Burke: First, I would like to focus on the discount rate because it is the fundamental issue in determining whether there was a significant loss of funds to the taxpayer and the State and to address the frame of mind the Comptroller and Auditor General was in. An auditor can only judge on what evidence is put before him. There has been an admission by NAMA officials that their record keeping was...

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)

Peter Burke: That is the point I am getting at. Mr. Collison said he recalls that it was discussed but the evidence particular to Project Eagle does not stack up in respect of the clear detail of why a departure was taken. When one looks in detail at the board paper from December 2013 on page 42, NAMA used a 2.5% discount rate as well as a 5.5% for Northern Ireland. That is confusing for people who are...

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)

Peter Burke: Critically, I am not clear on why a 2.5% discount rate for Northern Ireland debtors was mentioned in that paper.

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)

Peter Burke: People auditing this will only reflect the evidence put before them. They can see a worked out cashflow with a discount rate of 5.5% and the alternative before them is a 2.5% rate. Mr. Rooney will acknowledge why someone may be concerned about a 10% discount rate being used all of a sudden.

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)

Peter Burke: The critical point in this regard is that was retrospective. If one is trying to examine what was happening, which is difficult at this stage, when the process was ongoing, it is difficult to ascertain the work that was carried out to justify the 10% rate at the time. I questioned Mr. McEnery previously in a robust exchange. He alluded to a HSE property with a 30-year lease being sold at 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)

Peter Burke: I accept that point but I come back to the wider context, which is this was the biggest sale that NAMA undertook at the time in terms of a block sale of all its Northern Ireland portfolio. Central to that is how the portfolio and cashflows were valued and discounted. Should there have been greater emphasis and clearer detail at board level and operational level given the documents we have...

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)

Peter Burke: Returning to the issue, it is easy to see how someone examining the evidence would be confused by the reference to the lower discount rate being used.

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)

Peter Burke: I understand that point but why then was there no increased rate to show sensitivity? A lower discount rate would obviously show an increase of funds to the taxpayer, which is very good, but one of the most important questions when it comes to risk assessment is what are the adverse consequences of a sale. It would have been reasonable to include a sensitivity rate above 5.5% because 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)

Peter Burke: I accept it is referenced. I have read the note from the board. The departure from the discount rate is not detailed. The point I am trying to get across is that as I understand it, when it comes to evaluating a sale, the adverse consequences should always be clearly detailed. I do not understand why in relation to such an important sale the only rate detailed is the discounted interest...

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)

Peter Burke: Does Mr. Rooney accept that it should be done?

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)

Peter Burke: If Mr. Rooney personally was selling an asset, would he think it good practice to have a working for the departure on the discount rate?

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)

Peter Burke: When the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, appeared before the committee, he said that a work-out of the loan book was not a viable option because of pressure from the European Central Bank, ECB, in the context of Ireland trying to exit the bailout programme. From an operational point of view in terms of calculations and valuations, were any of the witnesses aware of that pressure such...