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Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)

John Deasy: While Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú is here, I want to ask him about the report on Cork Institute of Technology and Waterford Institute of Technology and the issues surrounding potential amalgamation. I spoke to Mr. Kelly, as have others, and my understanding is that the report was to have been finalised in late April. There were issues about two governing bodies being changed and the...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)

John Deasy: I asked Mr. Kelly if he would come to the committee and answer questions when his report is finally published. Can Mr. Ó Foghlú come to the committee with him if or when he attends?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)

John Deasy: As such, we are not looking at any time before the end of August.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)

John Deasy: Does Mr. Ó Foghlú expect this to be finalised and dealt with by then? In fairness, we are hanging around here dealing with this for a long time. I accept Mr. Kelly's point. I spoke to him about the issues surrounding the changes in the governing bodies and presidential offices. That makes sense as it makes sense to delay and prolong the report. This has gone on for a very long...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Living City Initiative (16 Jun 2015)

John Deasy: 242. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to move the order to commence the Living City initiative five-year qualifying period. [23180/15]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)

John Deasy: In regard to issues arising from the minutes, last week I asked about the Comptroller and Auditor General's staff complement he had embedded in NAMA, on an ongoing basis since the NAMA Act and since NAMA was set up.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)

John Deasy: Yes, I am sorry, it is not the US Marine Corps. Claims have been made recently in the media regarding fire-sales of NAMA assets. I am a member of the Committee of Public Accounts for four years and, since NAMA came in to this committee, the sale of assets and the timeliness of the sale of assets has been a point of debate. At the first meeting I made the case that, given the projections...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)

John Deasy: That was my term, I apologise.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)

John Deasy: That is fine, but the Comptroller and Auditor General does look at the rate of return?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)

John Deasy: The question then arises, from what the Comptroller and Auditor General has said, if he has a policy disagreement with NAMA, regarding the rate of return and how broad or narrow it should be - and he made that clear at the last meeting. In the special reports that have been completed, has he found any evidence of a fire-sale as such - maybe put the term fire-sale aside - has he found any...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)

John Deasy: Has the Comptroller and Auditor General found, in the special reports, evidence of any particular, singular assets being sold at a rate that, in his opinion, would be too low? Can he confirm that he does have a difference of opinion with regard to NAMA's flexibility and that he believes NAMA could preserve that flexibility within the rates of return parameters which he suggested?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)

John Deasy: Is the Comptroller and Auditor General recommending that all the sales be held by public auction?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)

John Deasy: How many instances of those have occurred?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)

John Deasy: I am sorry for delaying the meeting, but I thought it was important.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)

John Deasy: When does the Comptroller and Auditor General intend finalising his report?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)

John Deasy: Is there a way of engaging in some kind of sampling in the meantime when it comes to some of the assets being disposed of? The one thing I took from what the Comptroller and Auditor General said, was that he had a difference of opinion when it comes to the rate of disposal.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)

John Deasy: I should have said the speed of the disposal.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)

John Deasy: I understand.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)

John Deasy: I understand.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)

John Deasy: Between now and finalising the report can the Comptroller and Auditor General engage in some kind of sampling with regard to the ongoing disposal of some of these assets?