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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) (18 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: In any way. I am asking the question.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (18 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: Think about this: there has been a volte facein the decision-making at board level, moving from a firesale to a sale all in one go. A meeting took place in Stormont. There was a person on the Northern Ireland Advisory Committee at it. There is a letter from Brown Rudnick to Finance Minister Wilson that is effectively a letter of intent. If one looks at it in any other way, one notes it is...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (18 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: It is fair to say, however, that NAMA would not have sold were it not for the approach coming in and the way in which it came in.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (18 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: Then, there was the letter to Mr. Wilson and the meetings which took place in Stormont. Obviously, the letter of intent gave certain guarantees or referenced certain guarantees. Whether they materialised is another question. The next thing that happened was this approach.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (18 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: I have just outlined four factors and I have also outlined the letter of intent, the meetings that were taking place and the role of Mr. Cushnahan. Did the board not consider all of these activities, the change of thinking as regards a fire sale and the four pressures that NAMA was under? Mr. McEnery has said that section 10 was paramount but not exclusive, which is a very important and...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (18 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: My final reference is as follows. At the board meeting of 12 December, reference was made to the idea that the portfolio sale would release NAMA from what it described as "a disproportionate burden of effort in light of the relative size of the portfolio".

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (18 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: What does "burden of effort" mean?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (18 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: Is it the four things to which I referred? Is it lack of debtor engagement-----

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (18 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: -----business risk-----

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (18 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: -----diplomacy and political pressure?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (18 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: I assure the Chair that I am concluding now and not asking another question. The crux of this in relation to the €170 million is dependant on what I spoke about earlier, which is the four factors versus section 10 of the NAMA Act and whether the process was going to be worthwhile. Was it paramount or exclusive as referred to by Mr. McEnery? That is the crux of this issue. It is...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (18 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: Absolutely. I believe that is right. It could be higher. It could be lower.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (18 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: Mr. McEnery might re-edit his statement there.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (20 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: 241. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the drug Orkambi is not being made available to cystic fibrosis patients here (details supplied). [31434/16]

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An tOchtú Leasú a Aisghairm) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of the Eighth Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: I am sharing my time with Deputy Jan O'Sullivan. The Labour Party will be supporting this legislation to bring about a referendum on repealing the eighth amendment of the Constitution. The very introduction of the eighth amendment was opposed by the Labour Party in 1983. We were very much alone at that time. The Constitution was never the place for such a proposal. Unfortunately, our...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (25 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: 414. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria used in assessing a medical card application for a patient with motor neurone disease; if a medical card for a patient with motor neurone disease is automatically granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31601/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Provision (25 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: 609. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when arrangements will be made for equal provision for all forms of child care, with particular reference to stay-at-home parents. [31596/16]

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. It is the first time I ever said this and I do a lot of committee work but I do not think there was anything I disagreed with. In this Oireachtas there are two health committees, the normal health committee chaired by Deputy Harty and this committee under the chairmanship of Deputy Shortall. This is a once in a generation, possibly once in a...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee. I am very much of the opinion we will have to move to salaried GP contracts. I read the opening statement and what the witnesses have said on this. There are a number of reasons for the move. We have gaps throughout the country. I have read what the witnesses stated on salaried GPs and independent contractors versus the corporate...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: Three parts or two parts?