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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 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)
David Cullinane: The Minister is counting down the clock.
- 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 fine. I will take the time to stay here.
- 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 was never given that information.
- 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 was never given that information.
- 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: I will take the Minister out of the picture for a moment and establish what we do know. We know now that Mr. Cushnahan did have a relationship with six debtors, and possibly seven. We know that Mr. Cushnahan had a relationship with Tughans in that he shared one of its offices. We know that two Northern Ireland Advisory Committee, NIAC, meetings took place in Tughans' offices. We also know...
- 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: Yes. The Minister did not take any action and he also failed to inform the First Minister and the deputy First Minister in the North. He failed in his duty in respect of-----
- 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: It is a statement, but it is also a question.
- 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 a red herring.
- 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: It is a diversionary tactic.
- 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: I am not. What am I following?
- 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: I am not trying to damage the Minister at all.
- 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: With respect, the Minister has accused me of trying to damage him-----
- 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 not to damage him. That is to ask questions of him about the course of action he did or did not take. It is reasonable to put these questions to him. That is not an attack.
- 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: It is not an allegation. I put a question to the Minister.
- 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: With respect, the Comptroller and Auditor General said in his report that NAMA had relied heavily on this so-called letter of comfort or assurance from Cerberus. It did not conduct the type of examination the Comptroller and Auditor General said it should have done, which was to acquire information from Tughans and Brown Rudnick to see if there was still an association with Mr. Cushnahan.
- 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: Yes, but the Minister was made aware of a potentially corrupted process-----
- 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: He was made aware of a potentially corrupted process. That is a fact and it is not to try to damage him. We are trying to establish the facts.
- 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: They were part of a sale that had implications in this state, for which the Minister has responsibility and of which he was made aware.
- 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: With respect, you are missing the point. It ceases being simply commercial when potentially there is corruption in the process. That is when the Minister has responsibility. That is the point.
- 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 process continues regardless - carry on regardless.