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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) (24 Nov 2016)

David Cullinane: We may disagree on that. That is what NAMA is saying. Why was that the case?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

David Cullinane: The point is that we know that on 10, 11 and 12 March, the board, CEO and the chairman of NAMA were aware of a success fee arrangement between Brown Rudnick, Tughans and Frank Cushnahan, but at no point on those three occasions was NAMA able to acquire the actual date. There had to be a reason for that and the reason was either that NAMA asked for the information and was not given it or it...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

David Cullinane: What was the response?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

David Cullinane: It does not give any date.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

David Cullinane: If no date was given, why was the follow-up question not asked? Ms O'Reilly has not given us a date. We have asked a very specific question. We want to know the date because Mr. Cushnahan was a member of the Northern Ireland advisory committee and we want to be very clear that there was no association when he was a member. NAMA asked for the date and did not get it. Surely it would go...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

David Cullinane: I am putting myself in the shoes of the NAMA board. I am a NAMA board member. I am made aware of a success fee arrangement that involves a member of the Northern Ireland advisory committee. I do not know when that relationship started. I would try to get that information. Mr. Stewart says NAMA tried to get the information and did not get it. At no point was that ever established, which...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

David Cullinane: Cerberus said it was never asked.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

David Cullinane: It would have put a completely different context on it. Mr. Mark Neporent was here and I put it to him. With respect, when Mr. Neporent was here-----

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

David Cullinane: -----I asked him whether Cerberus was made aware by NAMA that PIMCO had a success fee arrangement with Mr. Cushnahan who had been a member of the Northern Ireland advisory committee, Brown Rudnick and Tughans and he said "No". I asked him whether that information would have been useful to Cerberus and he said of course it would have been. Of course it would have been useful information for...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

David Cullinane: This goes back to Mr. Patrick Long from Lazard who said when he said one cannot disentangle Mr. Cushnahan from Brown Rudnick and Tughans. It also goes back to what the Comptroller and Auditor General said in his final finding. He said that NAMA was concerned about being legally OK but was not concerned with actually drilling down into it and making sure that Cerberus had access to the full...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

David Cullinane: Yet it is in the board minutes of 13 March that NAMA would do that and give the information to bidders about the departure of PIMCO if it was necessary. It would have been necessary in this situation.

Statute Law Revision Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (29 Nov 2016)

David Cullinane: Yes. I take it we will have ten minutes each-----

Statute Law Revision Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (29 Nov 2016)

David Cullinane: -----but we may not take the full time. I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Statute Law Revision Bill 2016, the principal purpose of which is to repeal spent and obsolete Acts that were enacted between 1922 and 1950. Sinn Féin will support this Bill's progression through the Houses of the Oireachtas and we acknowledge the work that has gone into making the Irish Statute Book a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (29 Nov 2016)

David Cullinane: 219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the case of a school (details supplied) which has applied to his Department under the additional school accommodation for primary schools fund for a parents room in the school; if he will acknowledge that the application has been received; the process for progressing the application; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Pension Provisions (29 Nov 2016)

David Cullinane: 250. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the position of a pension-related deduction payable in respect of dual public sector workers and specifically in respect of retained fire fighters with dual employment with their local authorities. [37490/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Pension Provisions (29 Nov 2016)

David Cullinane: 251. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if retained fire fighters should have the pension-related deduction thresholds on both employments, as was the case in 2009 and 2010. [37491/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Pension Provisions (29 Nov 2016)

David Cullinane: 252. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason certain public sector workers are paying very little and in some cases no pension-related deduction in relation to their fire fighting services. [37492/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Pension Provisions (29 Nov 2016)

David Cullinane: 254. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on whether it is fair and equitable that retained fire fighters who had already chosen to waive joining the superannuation scheme in favour of accepting a gratuity hadretirement benefits significantly diminished when compared to the pension-related deduction payable over their working lives up to the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Pension Provisions (29 Nov 2016)

David Cullinane: 255. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department expects to address the inequality suffered by retained fire fighters in dual employment as a result of the application of the pension-related deduction to their dual employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37496/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff (29 Nov 2016)

David Cullinane: 253. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason the 2009 circular issued to local authorities which states that in the case of staff employed in more than one capacity, each employment may be treated separately for the purposes of calculating revised remuneration in accordance with this circular was applied for two years and then changed in 2011....