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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 (29 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I thank Deputy MacSharry for allowing me to come in now on account of my Dáil engagements later. I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General and his office for his report and their presentation this morning. I have questions on three areas. There has been a lot of media and public focus on the scale of the probable, or possible, loss but for our purposes, the main concern should be...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I am interested in knowing what evidence there is in the minutes that there was adequate or appropriate scrutiny of the fact that there was a very significant discrepancy between the cashflow figure and the actual price achieved, of the discount applied and the price achieved.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Did anybody on the board at any point refer to the fact that there were no property valuations available in the context of the sale?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: On the Comptroller and Auditor General’s exchanges with NAMA on the various drafts of the report, Mr. McCarthy made a very interesting point in his presentation that while he had had engagement from January this year, it was not until June, some five or six months later, that there was a query about the valuation. Will he indicate to us the nature of the issues in dispute between...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Mr. McCarthy responded to Deputy Catherine Connolly’s questions on the matter earlier in the meeting, but to clarify, is it correct to say his figure of £190 million, as being the possible loss, was included in the draft in January and that the figure was not queried until June? That is my understanding of what he indicated earlier, but I might be incorrect.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I thank Mr. McCarthy for the clarification. The third issue about which I wish to ask him is the management of conflicts of interest. On page 90 of the report-----

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Yes, it is. On page 90 of the report Mr. McCarthy states the NAMA board and subcommittee members are legally obliged to make annual statutory declarations of relevant interests and that this entails the disclosure of interests. They should not seek to influence a decision on a matter and should absent themselves from a meeting or that part of it during which the matter is being discussed....

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Yet Project Eagle entailed a significant number of properties owned by those debtors.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I am sorry. That to me is a very significant issue and a serious failing of corporate governance. Mr. McCarthy has said there is a legal requirement. In his view, was it met by the members of the NIAC?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: From the Comptroller and Auditor General's experience, was this issue raised at any point on the board of NAMA?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: The issue that a member of the sub-committee had a significant conflict of interest and that this had been disclosed.

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Staff Remuneration (4 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Donohoe, for coming in to the House to respond to this topical issue. In December 2015, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, the Psychiatric Nurses Association of Ireland and the SIPTU nursing unions concluded an agreement with the HSE and the Department of Health. The agreement was to restore recognition of the...

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Staff Remuneration (4 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the Minister for that reply but there are several points that the Minister seems to be ignoring. Can the Minister stand over a situation whereby people doing the same job are not being paid the same amount? That is what it amounts to for graduates who came out between 2011 and 2015. People who graduated before that get the incremental credit, but people who graduated this year do...

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Staff Remuneration (4 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: How many vacancies are there?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Programme (4 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 84. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015; when she expects to bring the Bill to Second Stage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28132/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes Funding (4 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 417. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a severe funding issue impeding the work of a facility that is the only residential detox service for adolescents (details supplied); his views on the appropriateness of the current funding model that allows this service to function; if he will commit to devising an appropriate long term funding model for this essential...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (4 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 402. To ask the Minister for Health if he will set out the HSE's policy in respect of the provision of mobility scooters and motorised wheelchairs in each of the nine CHOs; the reason for the variation in these policies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28276/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann (4 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 582. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the profit or loss of Bus Éireann's various businesses such as public service obligations, PSOs, expressway services, school transport and other businesses (details supplied) in tabular form. [28279/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Staff (4 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 612. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of whole time equivalent social worker posts within each Tusla local area office, in tabular form; the number of posts that are currently filled; the number of posts that are on leave; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28594/16]

Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I commend and fully support the Sinn Féin motion. There is no doubt there is a clear need to provide dedicated mental health teams on a 24-7 basis in all hospital areas. However, I wish to make one initial point. I am very conscious of the devastating trauma suicide causes for families who have been affected directly. My own certainly was, and I know many families of Members of this...