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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: What we do not want a statement to be made and then further questions to be asked. Let us put this issue to bed. I presume the Minister for Health will be coming into the Dáil to make that statement. The public can only do so much. We hear senior people in the public health system saying that a system that is vital to dealing with this virus is close to collapse. What is being...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Travel Trade Sector (8 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 126. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to a submission from a group (details supplied); and if he will give it further consideration in the context of budget 2021 and the period thereafter. [29312/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Strategic Infrastructure Provision (8 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 143. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if proposed applicants under the strategic housing development legislation are required to contact county childcare committees to identify local childcare needs. [29279/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (8 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has established and or plans to establish a compensation fund and or has amended her Department’s contingent liability in view of the potential for claims to be made against her in view of the ongoing issues regarding the calculated grades for the leaving certificate. [29424/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (8 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the integrity, validity and reliability of the process of national standardisation of leaving certificate calculated results was overseen by the National Standardisation Group whose role was to oversee the application of the statistical model to the school data; the reason it did not adequately test the process in order to...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Data Retention (8 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 216. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which county childcare committees can access childcare information (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to this issue; if so, his plans to address same; the reason Pobal is now the guardian of this dataset; and the process that was initiated to implement this. [29278/20]

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: I am sorry I was not here earlier; the timings just did not work out. I noticed something in Mr. McDonagh's statement that always grates with me, as I have said on several occasions. I refer to the word "profit". I appreciate that NAMA ended up with portfolios on which there had been great discounts. I believe the Comptroller and Auditor General said the outlay was €74.4 billion...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: This represents a discount of approximately 85% on the original par value. NAMA hoped to get €46.2 million. We have heard that there were errors and Mr. McDonagh has accepted this. The public took a great hit and NAMA was set up and given a job to do, which was to get as much as it possibly could for the assets. Its terms of reference stated that it was to achieve the best possible...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: If there was no real interest in the portfolio, what risk was there in NAMA advertising it?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: Looking at this from the perspective of the public, the valuation goes back to 2009. There may well have been a desktop exercise carried out after that. Mr. McDonagh might confirm whether there was. There was no competitive process and Clareview knew that there was no other bidder. Did NAMA not just throw in the towel in attesting that there was no more to be achieved from this?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: Does Mr. McDonagh think the €10 million loss on Project Nantes was a good outcome?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: Would Mr. McDonagh say there is a basis to conclude that NAMA achieved the best possible financial return for the Project Nantes loan sale? Can he point to that basis?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: Yet Mr. McDonagh differentiated in his response today that NAMA achieved profits of €78 million on six of the seven connection loan bundles. He differentiated Nantes himself.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: In hindsight, does Mr. McDonagh regret that the information was not forthcoming, that when information came to the Committee of Public Accounts or to the Comptroller and Auditor General that it was not specifically referenced?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: That goes back some time. I realise I am going to be very short on time. I might actually put that question to Mr. McDonagh in writing if he does not mind and send him an email.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: I want to ask about Mr. McDonagh about housing and 20,000 residential units. I appreciate some residential units have come into play but some were supposed to be delivered by the end of 2020. This will now happen in 2021. Why is that the case?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: Was that not referenced in the 2019 report, which would have been pre-Covid?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: No. I refer to residential units to delivered in 2020.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: Mr. McDonagh did not write the legislation and section 172 did not anticipate some scenarios. That gap arose in the Committee of Public Accounts during the last Dáil. In hindsight, are there things that Mr. McDonagh thinks we should do regarding section 172? I know there is one case outstanding with the Garda, from the last parliamentary question I asked. Is that the only one at present?