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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) (22 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: I will finish very quickly. In relation to the continuous mantra that this was a very difficult property portfolio, Mr. Long has looked in detail at the Comptroller and Auditor General's report. If he looks at the chapter that I cite repeatedly, figure 4.5 on page 70 relates to the European real estate loan sales market. It goes on to show the various companies interested and the various...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (22 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: Mr. Long did not.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (22 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: Did Mr. Long meet with NAMA since he was called to come before the committee as a witness?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (22 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: Mr. Long said that he was repeatedly told that this was a difficult portfolio.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (22 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: Mr. Long's evidence was that he was told repeatedly by NAMA board members and he listed them.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (22 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: We were repeatedly told there were difficult debtors.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (22 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: There is no evidence of that anywhere in the report. Number two-----

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (22 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: Of difficult debtors. In fact, when I looked at the meetings of the Northern Ireland Advisory Committee, they spoke about performing loans and returns on loans. I asked Mr. Long whether he read the report, which drew conclusions. In respect of what he said about competitive tension, PIMCO withdrew and he has no idea why it withdrew.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (22 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: They were there from earlier on. The NAMA board held a normal scheduled meeting. What was recorded was that Lazard was to be appointed and simultaneously PIMCO was to continue on with NAMA's permission to examine the portfolio in parallel with NAMA going out to Lazard. The final sentence stated that this was as much to give protection to PIMCO about the integrity of the process. Mr. Long...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (22 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: Not entirely?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (22 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: One of the many conclusions of the Comptroller and Auditor General was that PIMCO appeared to have had an advantage having been in the race from early on. Even when he wrote this report, he was not aware that PIMCO was in it. It has come out that PIMCO was in it even further back, was in the data room and had a competitive advantage. Now that Mr. Long knows all of this, would Mr. Long...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Library Services Provision (23 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: 90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the nature and results of the consultation that took place with public library staff regarding the My Open Library project in advance of the pilot scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36471/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Library Services Provision (23 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: 91. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the risk assessment that has taken place and the details of that assessment with regard to the My Open Library project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36472/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Library Services Provision (23 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: 93. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if a condition of approval for capital funding for public libraries is that the library must agree to be an open library; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36474/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Library Services (23 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: 92. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the plans his Department has to reinstate the library council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36473/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Library Services Staff (23 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: 94. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if Irish is no longer a requirement for the appointment of a person to the position of county librarian; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36475/16]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: It should be on the public record. I made the point when we met in private that it is totally unacceptable. They are treating the Committee of Public Accounts with contempt. It is our duty. We are not in the Dáil and we miss things because we have given a commitment to serve on this committee. The Chairman, the officials from the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: I think we should adjourn for half an hour to let us read the statements. I agree with Deputy McDonald that it could be that so many issues will arise that we will just do our best today and reserve other questions for another day.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: I think we should take half an hour to start and then come back to correspondence.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: We should reassess the situation then.