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Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (12 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (12 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: The market has utterly failed to supply and now we are actively supporting it. I will move on. My last question is in regard to rented buildings. I will come back on other issues later to the State Claims Agency. On rent, what is the NTMA paying in rent; why is it moving and what are the implications of that move?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (12 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: What rent is the NTMA paying now? Why does it have to leave? What is the cost of that, if any? What is the new rent?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (12 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Perhaps we might get a note on the rent of €1 million per floor.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (12 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: How many floors are involved?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (12 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I have no problem. I am just trying to establish facts; that is all. It is €1 million per floor and there are five floors.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (12 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Is NAMA paying €1 million as well?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (12 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I ask Mr. Black to come back with a note on what the NTMA is paying and what it will be paying.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (12 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Was a business case made for purchasing a building?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (12 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: The NTMA looked at buying a building. Did it prepare a business case on that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (12 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Is that for the agency's section of the building?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency (Resumed)
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (12 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Am I right that about €19 billion of the national debt is savings?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency (Resumed)
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (12 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Is the figure for savings rising over the years?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency (Resumed)
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (12 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: What was the national debt just before the crisis started?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency (Resumed)
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (12 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Is it €200 billion now?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency (Resumed)
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (12 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I am not going to dwell on this but I am right that there is an investment committee that advises on investments?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency (Resumed)
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (12 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency (Resumed)
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (12 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Does that investment committee have external members?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency (Resumed)
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (12 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I am reading in the document that one of them is Ms Julie Sinnamon, CEO of Enterprise Ireland. Then we have Mr. Mark Ryan, company director and former manager-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency (Resumed)
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (12 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: It is on page 56 of the annual report. Mr. Ryan is former managing director of Accenture Ireland. That is not the same company - perhaps the Chair can correct me - that came up in respect of IT, is it? I do not want to get a company's name wrong. I may have mixed this company up with the company for the IT for the Garda station. It is a different company, is it?