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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) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Did Mr. Collison believe them? Does he believe them now?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: But reverse inquiries of this type?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Can they cite another example where a reverse inquiry was premised in this way-----

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----in terms of bundling up debtors from a specific geographic location?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Had that ever happened before?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: No, I want to know did that ever happen before.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Right. Has it happened subsequently?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am looking at some of the information. I must ask who came up with Eagle. Who code names these?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I was looking at other ones. They are fairly class names: Saturn, Quattro, Aspen, Chrome, Holly. Maybe the latter was around Christmas time, was it? No, it was quarter one of 2014.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: It was somebody with a good imaginative capacity.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: They cite all of these, and that is fine. Let us take Quattro. This particular transaction, with a par value of $200, was a collection of hotels located along the east coast of the United States. It is based on asset location. I understand investors moving, and a rationale for all of that, but it strikes me as singular of Brown Rudnick, not to make an approach to NAMA which is fair...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: No, it was more than that. It was not about where are the assets. If they were-----

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Hang on. If they were looking at the North and saying, "Well, this has bottomed out. They are in trouble there. They only way is up.", I can understand viewing the assets in that location, but that is not what happened. They were quite specific that it was about the debtors.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Let me cut to the chase here because maybe Mr. Collison is politely side-stepping what I am thinking. It strikes me in this singular focus on the debtors in the North that it would have been in the interests of persons with connections with those debtors in the North perhaps to have had them bundled up and acquired by an appropriate entity. It strikes me as odd when one considers that Mr....

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: We may need their help.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am not disputing that but I am also thinking out loud. Somebody referred to that earlier, that it also would have been a neat vehicle for those debtors who wanted out from under NAMA. Would it not?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am merely highlighting that it strikes me so.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (26 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: We are witnessing very distressing scenes from the refugee camp in Calais, sometimes referred to as the jungle. It has been home to 6,000 souls, 800 of whom are unaccompanied minors, in other words, children. There is very deep concern for everybody in that refugee camp, but particularly for children, as they are moved from Calais and dispersed to other parts of France. To our very great...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (26 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----even 200 of these child refugees so they can find sanctuary and a future here in our State?

Leaders' Questions (27 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I too wish to raise the fact that this morning 507 secondary schools, representing 70% of schools, are closed throughout the State. That is hardly to be chalked down as a success on the part of this Administration. Tens of thousands of pupils and their families are profoundly affected by this action, my own family included. The schedules and routines of parents and children are up in the...