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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: It is a technical issue and we want clarity. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: If the Revenue or Department officials want to give further briefing for more clarification the committee can go in to private session again.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: 205. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite appointments for a person (details suppled); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35503/16]

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: I thank the deputy First Minister for taking the time to attend this meeting of the committee. I want to deal explicitly with facts. I am not interested in opinions in respect of Mr. McGuinness's opening statement. I want to begin by asking about the phone call or notice he said he received from the Minister for Finance in the Republic of Ireland, Deputy Noonan, of his intention to sell...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: Would Mr. McGuinness not concur that, basically, the Minister has no jurisdiction over making an operational decision within NAMA?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: With regard to how this was executed, the Minister could not ring and say "I am selling all of Project Eagle" because he does not have the authority or the jurisdiction to do that. It is very clearly laid out in the National Asset Management Agency Act 2009 that NAMA is totally independent in its performance. Therefore, the Minister could not execute that. It is not in his power to sell...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: Mr. McGuinness is changing his language.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: We need to be very factual here. The Minister does not have the authority to execute what Mr. McGuinness has stated.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: Mr. McGuinness said in his opening statement that "Since then, we have all become aware that a number of other meetings and engagements took place involving various combinations of the Minister, Deputy Noonan, Northern Democratic Unionist Party, DUP, Ministers and representatives of NAMA, Cerberus and PIMCO". Does he not think that line is grossly misleading in view of the fact that the...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: Mr. McGuinness is clouding the issue.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: Yes, but we need to give an objective view. We have seen how Mr. McGuinness analysed draft orders in his office. We have heard that from previous speakers. I find it absolutely incredible that a person of his stature would make a statement like that which I have quoted and which would imply to any objective person reading it that the Minister met Cerberus and PIMCO. I think that is very...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: I think we should put that on the record very clearly.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: Mr. McGuinness's opening statement did.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: He was not meeting Cerberus or PIMCO and that is exactly the implication that is given in the paragraph of Mr. McGuinness's opening statement from which I have quoted.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: It is very clear.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: Mr. McGuinness said it very clearly there.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: A Chathaoirligh, I think it is very important-----

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: -----that we deal in facts.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: That is very clearly-----

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: The next point I want to make relates to a phone call in which Mr. McGuinness essentially sang dumb in the room.