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Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)

David Cullinane: I am sorry, but Mr. Daly-----

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)

David Cullinane: We are not talking about hindsight. Mr. Daly has already established and he accepts that NAMA was made aware of the success fees with PIMCO. He knew that those success fees were broken into three parts - for Brown Rudnick, for Tughans and for Mr. Cushnahan. He was also aware that there was a relationship between Mr. Cushnahan and Tughans whereby the former shared office space with the...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)

David Cullinane: We can come back to this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (4 Oct 2016)

David Cullinane: 141. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of a proposal by the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation that was reported (details supplied) to implement an effective tax rate of 30% for a range of graduates and entrepreneurs living overseas who return to work here in employment with a salary of €75,000 or more in the areas of medicine, IT, science and finance;...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Nursing Staff Remuneration (4 Oct 2016)

David Cullinane: 337. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason his Department amended part of the agreement concluded between the INMO, PNA, SIPTU nursing unions, the HSE and the Department of Health so that the restored recognition of the 36-week nursing internship applied to 2016 graduates onwards, leading to a situation whereby 2011-2015 nursing and midwifery graduates are earning...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (4 Oct 2016)

David Cullinane: 367. To ask the Minister for Health when University Hospital Waterford was designated as a percutaneous coronary intervention centre, providing partial 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. emergency PCCI care; the staffing requirements necessary to provide this service; the population serviced, detailed by geographical area and population numbers; the current staff complement; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (4 Oct 2016)

David Cullinane: 368. To ask the Minister for Health if a business case for a second catheterisation laboratory was submitted to the HSE or his Department by University Hospital Waterford; the way in which this case was processed; and the action taken by his Department and the HSE following the business case submission. [28105/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (4 Oct 2016)

David Cullinane: 369. To ask the Minister for Health if University Hospital Waterford was placed on a risk register in respect of cardiology services; the changes which were made to the risk assessment from 2012 to date in 2016; the rationale for any risk assessment changes; the way in which the process works; the person which carries out the risk assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (4 Oct 2016)

David Cullinane: 370. To ask the Minister for Health if design plans, including sketches, were drawn up for a second catheterisation laboratory in University Hospital Waterford; if a design team was appointed; the names of the design team; if he will provide the details of the design and all sketches; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28107/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (4 Oct 2016)

David Cullinane: 371. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the design team sketches or plans for the building of a second catheterisation laboratory at University Hospital Waterford; and if any plan or sketch involved the moving of the orthodontic unit at the hospital. [28108/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (4 Oct 2016)

David Cullinane: 372. To ask the Minister for Health if, following the submission of a business case and a design plan for a second catheterisation laboratory for University Hospital Waterford, the associated process has resulted in the hospital being in a queue for capital funding for same. [28109/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (4 Oct 2016)

David Cullinane: 373. To ask the Minister for Health the meaning of the south east, as defined by a commitment in a report (details supplied) that University Hospital Waterford would provide invasive cardiology services to the south east; the way in which the south east is defined geographically and by population; the meaning of invasive cardiology services and the services which constitute as invasive; and...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (4 Oct 2016)

David Cullinane: 601. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the definition of entrepreneur that is used by her Department when framing legislation and in particular tax relief schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28271/16]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Oct 2016)

David Cullinane: Just before the Chairman arrived I gave a copy of a document to the clerk. It is a briefing document, released under FOI, given to the Minister for Finance and officials from his Department. It is a context document on Project Eagle from 2015. As I will make reference to some of it during the meeting, I gave a copy of it to the clerk. I ask that copies be made for members and that I be...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)

David Cullinane: The Minister, along with the witnesses from the Department, are very welcome to the committee. The problem is there is a report from the Comptroller and Auditor General which is serious in some respects in which it finds there were certainly issues within the process. If the Minister read the executive summary, he would see many concerns have been expressed by the Comptroller and Auditor...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)

David Cullinane: We know what the differences are. With respect, this could be talking down the clock. We have already heard from Mr. Declan Reid and Ms Ann Nolan that there was a difference of opinion. There was an exchange between the Department of Finance and the Comptroller and Auditor General’s office. There was a difference on the process and the 5% or 10% discount rate. Are there any other...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)

David Cullinane: Does Ms Nolan agree the report stands on its own merits? Does she have a difficulty with anything in it?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)

David Cullinane: That is why I asked about what she does not agree with in the report.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)

David Cullinane: If Ms Nolan does not agree with everything, she disagrees with something. What is it that she disagrees with?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)

David Cullinane: Mr. Declan Reid prepared a briefing pack for the Minister and officials in the Department on 11 July 2015. Did he have any meetings with NAMA specifically on the preparation of this briefing pack?