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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)
Mary Lou McDonald: What was Mr. Rowntree's view regarding what should have happened?
- 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)
Mary Lou McDonald: The discussion included external member feedback, meaning Mr. Rowntree, on the proposed approach to support the board's decision on the matter at its meeting on 10 October 2013.
- 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)
Mary Lou McDonald: So the board was seeking Mr. Rowntree's nod or-----
- 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)
Mary Lou McDonald: Was it asking for Mr. Rowntree's imprimatur, acquiescence or agreement regarding this approach?
- 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)
Mary Lou McDonald: I accept that but-----
- 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)
Mary Lou McDonald: So Mr. Rowntree thought it was worth exploring.
- 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)
Mary Lou McDonald: I assume Mr. Rowntree makes that remark of consideration based on a very rigorous examination of the decision to sell the portfolio and at what rate and value-----
- 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)
Mary Lou McDonald: Okay. It then gets very interesting. That happened on 7 October. The board met on 10 October, approved it and said it was going to examine the proposal. By early December, the indicative offer from PIMCO was on the table and by late December moving into early January, there was approval to dispose of the thing so it happened very quickly. Maybe that is the way these things happen. I...
- 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)
Mary Lou McDonald: At that stage, the indicative offer was on the table. At that meeting in December, an update regarding the University of Ulster at Jordanstown project was provided.
- 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)
Mary Lou McDonald: What I do not see is an update regarding-----
- 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)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----PIMCO and Project Eagle.
- 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)
Mary Lou McDonald: It appeared that the eagle had flown.
- 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)
Mary Lou McDonald: Let us tease our way through this because the documentation supports Mr. Rowntree's point. That is the meeting in December. December through to January saw the approval to dispose of the portfolio and the appointment of the sales advisers. It broke in the media in February that something was afoot. The data room was opened in February and there was material with the Comptroller and...
- 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)
Mary Lou McDonald: The committee met in October and there was no update at the December meeting. The next meeting was on 28 April in the Ewart Suite in the Hilton Hotel, which I know well, in Belfast.
- 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)
Mary Lou McDonald: It was a done deal at that stage.
- 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)
Mary Lou McDonald: So Mr. Rowntree's point is that far from this being a Northern matter-----
- 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)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----in fact, the Northern committee was completely written out of the equation in respect of the sales process. Would that be a fair reflection of the facts?
- 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)
Mary Lou McDonald: Cathaoirleach, I might try to be of some assistance here.
- 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)
Mary Lou McDonald: Deputy Cullinane is not inviting any witness to make a remark or to suggest a finding of corruption against any individual. I think he has made that clear.
- 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)
Mary Lou McDonald: We are talking here, in connection with this report, about issues of process-----