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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (15 Nov 2016)

Bobby Aylward: 266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is any form of funding available to assist a programme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34914/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (15 Nov 2016)

Bobby Aylward: 622. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will investigate the feasibility and potential benefits of implementing a system by which a private company may purchase carbon credits from private forestry owners for the purpose of reducing their carbon credit rating; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34497/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Salmon Hardship Scheme (15 Nov 2016)

Bobby Aylward: 664. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will consider a voluntary buy out scheme for snap net fishermen on the rivers Barrow, Nore, Suir and Slaney, if the fishermen were prepared to relinquish their licences in favour of compensation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34960/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Salmon Hardship Scheme (15 Nov 2016)

Bobby Aylward: 665. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will consider a voluntary buy out scheme for drift net fisherman on the estuaries to the rivers Barrow, Nore and Suir, if the fisherman were prepared to relinquish their licences in favour of compensation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34961/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (16 Nov 2016)

Bobby Aylward: 201. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 529 of 12 July 2016 the status of his commitment that the recruitment of a consultant medical oncologist with a special interest in sarcoma, based in St. Vincent's University Hospital, will be prioritised; the criteria stipulated in the job description to ensure that a specialist with extensive experience in treating...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2016)

Bobby Aylward: Has consideration been given to inviting Mr. Frank Cushnahan to appear before the committee.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2016)

Bobby Aylward: Has he not been asked?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2016)

Bobby Aylward: Is it intended to wind up our hearings next Thursday, apart from the two meetings scheduled in December to consider our report?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Bobby Aylward: I welcome the last three board members and thank them for attending. They are getting their chance to speak as witnesses. Everything has been touched on so I am probably repeating things so I will keep it short and concise. Do the witnesses feel as board members that they were well informed about all procedures and the sale of Project Eagle? Do they think they are well-informed to make...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Bobby Aylward: Did the guidance from the chairman and the chief executive help the board to make up its mind? Do the witnesses think they gave them all the information they required?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Bobby Aylward: Do the witnesses feel the sale of Project Eagle was handled fairly and properly? They have already answered some of these questions. Mr. Mulcahy has anyway.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Bobby Aylward: Did NAMA get value for money at £1.3 million? I specifically refer to the 10% discount that was given and the 5.5% that was the norm on other sales up until then. Could the witnesses elaborate on the use of a 10% discount rather than a 5.5% one?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Bobby Aylward: Let us suppose the board had not given the 10% discount and stuck with the figure of 5.5%. Would that have made a difference to the sale?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Bobby Aylward: The figure of 5.5% was the norm up until then. 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) (17 Nov 2016)

Bobby Aylward: Why was the Comptroller and Auditor General so entrenched in his report on the question of the figure of 5.5%. He is a professional man, as is the body for which he works. Why was he so entrenched in the view that there was loss on the difference between 5.5% and 10%? I call on Mr. Mulcahy to comment on the point as well.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Bobby Aylward: The way things are going, I will have no time. Everyone is eating into it.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Bobby Aylward: I am good at sharing but I have no wish to share too much. Did the board members look at selling off assets individually in the long term, rather than by a loan book sale? Was the option assessed properly at that stage? Could they have been kept or retained? Witnesses have implied several times that NAMA would have done better if it had held on until 2015, 2016 or 2018. Furthermore,...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Bobby Aylward: Did NAMA assess one against the other?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Bobby Aylward: That was putting a gun to the head of those in NAMA. Is that not the case?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Bobby Aylward: I have two further questions.