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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)

Alan Kelly: Okay. In regard to the same Department, did Mr. Daly have any conversations on the Comptroller and Auditor General and the standards of expertise staff etc. as a result of the engagement process over the four different report versions that he saw?

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

Alan Kelly: There were discussions on the expertise and competence of the Comptroller and Auditor General .

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

Alan Kelly: Did the Department officials express any opinion on which Mr. Daly would like to elaborate?

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

Alan Kelly: In regard to Lazard - we will have to come back to this issue eventually - the fact that it received £4.3 million for a role that was very confined in comparison with the roles of organisations of similar type in regard to other projects is perplexing. Why was it not involved in portfolio valuations and the sales process? Why was it not asked to be involved in that process? Why,...

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

Alan Kelly: Why was Lazard not briefed on the objective of the loan sale?

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

Alan Kelly: In detail?

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

Alan Kelly: Verbally?

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

Alan Kelly: We cannot see any documentation to that end.

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

Alan Kelly: But it is not available to us.

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

Alan Kelly: Has anybody seen it?

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

Alan Kelly: It sounds like soccer.

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

Alan Kelly: The committee has not been provided with documentary evidence in that regard. That is a problem. Fortis made it to the end but it was not involved in the first or second call. Mr. Daly has eloquently stated that 80% of potential investors were invited to engage in the bidding process. Fortis was not invited to do so on the first or second occasion. If the process was exhaustive and...

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

Alan Kelly: That is not my question.

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

Alan Kelly: It disproves the idea that everyone was brought in.

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

Alan Kelly: I disagree.

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

Alan Kelly: Fine. Mr. McDonagh is entitled to do so.

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

Alan Kelly: But Fortis was not invited in the first or second time.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (4 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: I will not use all of the 30 minutes. I will break my contribution into three components. The first is on the Bill, which I will go through in a small bit of detail. I have two very capable Ministers of State in front of me, one of whom is leaving the Chamber. I want to make a number of short pre-budget contributions. I will raise a very serious issue which is not one I have raised...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Inequality in Access to Health Care: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: The old structure with all the directorates is being merged and there will be only a certain number of people over-----

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Inequality in Access to Health Care: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: It is another layer.