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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) (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: Okay.

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)

Seán Fleming: All I am saying is that at the end of that half-hour meeting a very quick decision was made. I am not saying there is anything wrong, I am just remarking that. I am still trying to get into the frame of mind of the members at the board meeting. We just want to have an understanding and sense of what happened. At this stage, I think we have completed-----

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)

Seán Fleming: Okay. I appreciate that.

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)

Seán Fleming: That is the information we have been looking for all along, earlier information regarding the discount.

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)

Seán Fleming: Do not worry. I have it there. It is in the accounts. I accept that point completely. On behalf of the Committee of Public Accounts, I thank Mr. Ellingham, Mr. McEnery and Mr. Soffe for making themselves available to meet the committee today. It was probably a more extensive meeting than they might have had were they to have met the Comptroller and Auditor General but that is the way...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Household Benefits Scheme (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: 143. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will review the means test for the household benefits package with a view to excluding those on the youth social welfare payment of circa €100 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31248/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Eligibility (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: 144. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) cannot receive the fuel allowance; if he will grant the fuel allowance to the person based on the history; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31249/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Ireland (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: 244. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine considering where public bodies advertise to open procedure - non-OJEU - on the e-tenders website (details supplied), his views on the circumstances whereby registered e-tender users logged on to find neither the invitation to tender nor any other document for the advertised competition had been uploaded to the system, thereby...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, a permanent witness to the committee. Mr. McCarthy is accompanied by his colleague, Mr. Paul Southern, deputy director of audit. No apologies have been received in respect of today's meeting. Are the minutes of the meeting of 13 October 2016 agreed? Agreed. As there are no further matters arising from the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: We can, of course, but there is no private session plan. We are in public session.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: In private.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: To be helpful, have people seen the letter? It is very short, only half a page long. I ask people to think about it. We wrote to NAMA and the agency confirmed that the documentation it received from Lazard was marked confidential. On that basis, it sought Lazard's prior consent to providing the correspondence to the committee. In response, Lazard has stated that it is willing to provide...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: We will hold it over until next Tuesday's meeting and try to finalise it then.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: We published a work programme and it is on that. Was it not on it earlier? I thought last Tuesday's meeting was well notified.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: The work programme will always be in draft form as it is always subject to change.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: No. We will deal with the work programme in a moment. We will hold over the correspondence in connection with Lazard until the next meeting.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: Deputy MacSharry is suggesting that we pursue NAMA on making sure we have all the information we request.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: Fine. We will return to that at the next meeting because fair points have been raised this morning. The next item is 113B, correspondence received from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform informing the committee of the appointment of Commissioner John McMahon as chairman and accounting officer of the Office of Public Works. I take this opportunity to thank the outgoing...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: Mr. McGuinness will appear before the committee on Wednesday, 16 November. The meeting was intended to take place next Wednesday, 26 October, but Mr. McGuinness will be out of the country at that time. The meeting was rearranged to accommodate his schedule.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: Yes.