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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)

Catherine Connolly: Tell me where he got it from.

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)

Catherine Connolly: Where did he get the 5.5% from?

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)

Catherine Connolly: It is in the NAMA paper and all the members of the deputation accept that. Is that correct?

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)

Catherine Connolly: It is a very simple 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)

Catherine Connolly: At this point of the evening-----

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)

Catherine Connolly: I have asked a question. Has the Minister read it? He has. I have asked the Minister where the 5.5% came from. He said it came from NAMA and not the Comptroller and Auditor General. Mr. Reid is nodding his head. The 5.5% has come from the NAMA documents and minutes. Is that correct?

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)

Catherine Connolly: Whatever about it being well qualified, let us accept where it has come from and put this to bed, because the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General has been more or less demonised for plucking a figure out of the sky with no expertise. However, the figure came from NAMA. That is the very figure NAMA people looked at in NAMA board meetings. Is that not correct?

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)

Catherine Connolly: I am not going to be side-tracked.

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)

Catherine Connolly: At this point of the evening, if the Minister does not know, I will let the officials who are with him answer the question. The Minister has answered the question by saying that this has come from NAMA itself.

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)

Catherine Connolly: I am not making a single allegation. In fact, since I have sat on this committee I have never made one single allegation. I am looking at the summary report of the Comptroller and Auditor General. He clearly points out that the commercial decision of selling NAMA assets is entirely a matter for NAMA. How the agency operates sales is entirely a matter for NAMA. Let us put this to bed...

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)

Catherine Connolly: Are any of the Minister's officials aware of that 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)

Catherine Connolly: This was published on 20 February and embargoed until 20 March 2013. My question at this point is whether the Minister is aware of 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)

Catherine Connolly: No, it was not.

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)

Catherine Connolly: This is a report of from the Northern Ireland Housing Executive on the management of response maintenance contracts. I am not trying to catch the Minister. I am simply asking whether he is aware of 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)

Catherine Connolly: This has come to me through the documents I have got one way or another for today. I will set out some of the findings. Section 37 relates to Mr. Cushnahan. The Northern Ireland Audit Office stated it was concerned about the involvement of a former non-executive member of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive audit committee who resigned from that committee. The report goes on to state...

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)

Catherine Connolly: The Minister knows nothing. That is fine.

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)

Catherine Connolly: I accept that. I am simply asking the Minister whether he is aware of this report. None of the members of the deputation is aware of the report. It is a damning indictment of Mr. Cushnahan from February 2013. We have to be careful. His name is not-----

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)

Catherine Connolly: I hear what you are saying. I abide by your ruling.

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)

Catherine Connolly: I abide by your ruling. I am simply reading about what was totally unethical and what should have been avoided. If that is causing a difficulty, then I apologise for my comment but these are the facts. I am simply asking the Minister whether this was brought to his attention.

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)

Catherine Connolly: I availed of it, or my office did through-----