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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) (13 Oct 2016)

Bobby Aylward: We did not know much about the University of Ulster report before today. It appears to be significant, yet no one has seen it, other than members of the advisory committee who saw it privately. Should NAMA have looked at it more? I presume considerable finance and research went into the report which was never used. If the committee had access to it, it would have a better insight into the...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Bobby Aylward: We do not see that anywhere.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Bobby Aylward: May we seek that information?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Bobby Aylward: Sure, we will never know.

Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (18 Oct 2016)

Bobby Aylward: 26. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that University Hospital Waterford has experienced an increase of 159% in inpatient and day case waiting lists since May 2013 when it became part of the South-South West Hospitals Group and that it now accounts for more than 40% of the group waiting list compared with 23% in 2013. [30687/16]

Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (18 Oct 2016)

Bobby Aylward: I want to ask the Minister the reason University Hospital Waterford has experienced a 159% increase in inpatient and day case waiting lists since May 2013, when it became part of the South-South West Hospitals Group, to the point where it now accounts for more than 40% of the group waiting list compared with 23% in 2013. This is of major concern. The figures are alarming. Why is it...

Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (18 Oct 2016)

Bobby Aylward: Waterford joined the South-South West Hospitals Group in May 2013 and the waiting list for inpatient day cases since then makes for interesting reading. My statistics do not compare with the Minister's. I will cite mine. Overall, the group's list is up 48% since May 2013, well below the national average of 62%, but Waterford has increased by 159% whereas Cork University Hospital, CUH, has...

Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (18 Oct 2016)

Bobby Aylward: The Minister stated that he was due to visit the hospital shortly. Will he put these figures to its management? Will he ask management to explain such a hike in the numbers? There are 30,992 people awaiting outpatient consultations, an increase of 16% since last December. Why is that? It would be remiss of me not to ask the Minister whether he will meet the consultants in Waterford and...

Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (18 Oct 2016)

Bobby Aylward: It is the first time by me, though.

Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (18 Oct 2016)

Bobby Aylward: What about the 24-seven service?

Other Questions: Speech and Language Therapy Provision (18 Oct 2016)

Bobby Aylward: He is like a hare.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Waiting Times (18 Oct 2016)

Bobby Aylward: 83. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the September 2016 figures from the National Treatment Purchase Fund which showed that 7,607 persons are waiting more than 12 months for an outpatient appointment in Waterford University Hospital, with 2,944 waiting over 18 months [30686/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Nitrates Action Programme Implementation (18 Oct 2016)

Bobby Aylward: 275. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will extend the 15 October deadline for slurry spreading in view of the severe weather experienced over the past few months, which has severely curtailed spreading activity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30468/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Electoral Commission Administration (18 Oct 2016)

Bobby Aylward: 286. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when the three-man boundary review commission established to examine the boundary between counties Kilkenny and Waterford is expected to publish its concluding report, taking into consideration that it is over six months past the initial deadline of 31 March 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

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)

Bobby Aylward: At the outset I must say that, like my colleagues, I find it unbelievable the way in which Mr. Soffe attacked the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General in his opening statement today. I thought three members of the board - there are only seven members - would come before the committee to defend themselves and outline their reasons for the sale of the Project Eagle portfolio. Instead,...

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)

Bobby Aylward: That is the way I read it.

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)

Bobby Aylward: I accept that. However, to downgrade and rubbish the Comptroller and Auditor General is another matter.

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)

Bobby Aylward: That is my reading of it.

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)

Bobby Aylward: Does Mr. Soffe respect the Comptroller and Auditor General's office?

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)

Bobby Aylward: I am glad Mr. McEnery acknowledged that. That is a change of tune from the opening statement. I want to move on. Brexit was mentioned by Deputy Kelly and, in his opening statement, Mr. Soffe made a big play about Brexit in that he knew it was coming down the line. I felt he was saying that he was going to take his cake, eat it and then run. In other words, get rid of the loan sale...