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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Expenditure (15 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 506, 507 and 508 of 24 November 2015, the status of the proposal from Castlethorn Construction regarding the provision of a sports hall and community centre at Adamstown community college in Lucan in County Dublin, including when she will make a decision on this proposal and if she will update the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (15 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 516. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the length of time Castlethorn Construction was given by the education and training board to build the sports hall and community centre at Adamstown community college in Lucan in County Dublin from the start date of the original contract, and if, when and by how long the original completion date was extended. [44715/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (15 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 551. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 252 of 18 September 2013 and with reference to a request to publish the Farrell Grant Sparks, FGS, report of 2009 that was published in redacted form on 16 April 2014, if she will clarify that Bus Éireann does not make a profit from the school transport scheme, considering that the FGS report...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (15 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 552. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to my Parliamentary Question No. 252 of 18 September 2013 and with reference to her statement regarding a signed confidentiality agreement, if she will provide the date Farrell Grant Sparks, FGS, commenced work on redactions, the date it completed its work on reaching an agreement with Bus Éireann and on making agreed redactions...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Costs and Controls (15 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 563. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a private rental tenant who has been in a tenancy for more than 12 months and who has not had a rent review since 2014 will be subject to a rent review in 2016, subject to the period between rent reviews being no less than 24 months. [44848/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee (16 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wrote to the Chairman yesterday with a proposal that we invite representatives from the Central Bank to appear before the committee. The Central Bank has published an internal audit report in respect of lack of compliance with State guidelines for public bodies. The report makes for very poor reading on the part of the bank and raises matters of very great concern. I spoke to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: In his opening statement, Mr. Daly makes a lot of play on the absence of preferential treatment by NAMA, the absence of cosy relationships, etc. In light of that, I want to ask him a couple of questions about Project Eagle, the sale of the northern loan portfolio. When was it decided to bundle the properties and sell them in a single lot? Can he recall the date?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: Does Mr. Daly have paperwork or analysis that informed that decision of the board?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: We will come back to that. I merely want to know does NAMA have paperwork and can Mr. Daly provide it to the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: What I am referring to, specifically, is the decision to have the transaction as one lot. Obviously, NAMA made an analysis of that and the transaction has now occurred. I would like to see the documentation on it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, of course. I am asking that Mr. Daly provide the paperwork, the basis upon which NAMA took that decision for a single lot, to the committee. Can Mr. Daly do that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank Mr. Daly. Is Mr. Daly familiar with the name Mr. David Watters,-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----from RSM McClure Watters.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: He is a Belfast accountant.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: Am I correct in saying his firm, RSM McClure Watters, was a member of a NAMA advisory panel?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: I know that. It was on a consultancy panel.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: Did it ever procure work from NAMA?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is Mr. Daly aware that Mr. Watters claims responsibility for the decision for coming up with the initiative to bundle those properties? Mr. Watters did not refer to it as Project Eagle. It was referred to as "Project Amani", when it was first conceived.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: Might it be an idea to correspond with this gentleman to establish the veracity of his claims? He is fairly firm in his view. He wrote to Tughans, the solicitors' firm that we have discussed long and hard, which was involved in the initial Pimco debacle and then, subsequently, in the Cerberus debacle, and he is quite firmly of the view that he did considerable work, and had involved Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: I know, but it gets curiouser and curiouser.