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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) (17 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: Is it likely that these are assets based in Northern Ireland? Some were in other jurisdictions.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: The Minister for Finance told us he did not have any responsibility in this and it is stated in the Act that he is not permitted to get involved in the commercial aspect of NAMA's work. Why did Mr. Neporent direct the letter of investment to the Minister and not to NAMA?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: Did the Minister advise Cerberus to go to NAMA or say it was not appropriate? Did he say he should not have received that information?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: A number of witnesses have said that the Northern Ireland portfolio was more difficult to deal with. Cerberus said it carried out research into the two jurisdictions and said it had not worked in or purchased assets in either of them previously. Was Mr. Neporent made aware of, or given to believe, there were different cultures in the two jurisdictions?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: Can Mr. Neporent share information with us as to how the loans purchased by Cerberus performed afterwards?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: Some of them have been sold already, though. What was the experience with those?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: The witness is happy with the purchase.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: I, too, welcome the deputy First Minister and thank him for taking some time out of his obviously very busy schedule. Some 50% of the actual properties to which loans were attached were located in Northern Ireland but the common denominator was that the loans were all Northern Ireland owned. We heard from Mr. Ellingham of NAMA that the Northern Ireland portfolio was the most difficult of...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: In his statement, Mr. McGuinness said it was alleged there was massive shortchanging in terms of the amount that could have been got from the sale had it been worked out in a different way. Obviously, the Northern Ireland economy was Mr. McGuinness's focus. Was any work done in the institutions or the Executive on what the value of the assets in Northern Ireland might be? It is quite...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: There are two other sets of questions I wish to ask, one being on why there was a deviation from the kind of process that had occurred previously. Essentially, there was a bundling of loans. One of the reasons that was advanced was that there were political considerations that would have meant it was better to bundle and sell quickly. Some of that was in regard to the non-co-operation....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roads Infrastructure Programme: Discussion. (16 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: Do the witnesses have a set of multipliers that show the impact of not investing in the roads network? Is it staggered over one year, three years and five years, for example? Obviously it costs more to carry out significant pieces of work. A lack of funding will also have an impact on the capital plan. I presume that the European Investment Bank will be one of the funding sources. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roads Infrastructure Programme: Discussion. (16 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: I have a question on the same topic, assuming TII does not run into rare snails along the way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roads Infrastructure Programme: Discussion. (16 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: Given that we are talking about motorway standard, at what point does TII consider such a project, in a business case, from the point of view tolling it? That impacts on usage, and we see how toll avoidance plays out in other areas. There are also the subsidies that are paid where there is not the required threshold. That has been the experience up to now. They are paid in respect of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roads Infrastructure Programme: Discussion. (16 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: Like Castlebar and the N4.

Mental Health Services Funding: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: I am sharing time with Deputies Martin and Healy. While I broadly welcome the efforts to fully implement A Vision for Change in the area of mental health, this evening we are seeing more confusion around who is in Opposition and who is in Government. I believe the policy is suffering as a result of that confusion. The Social Democrats are committed to delivering on all aspects of the 2006...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Garda Stations (15 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: I welcome the fact that the Policing Authority will have a look at this. When we, the Deputies of Kildare, met the assistant commissioner on a number of occasions, we were pretty much told that what one has one holds, and that was the approach. That flies in the face of policing plans being what they are supposed to be, which is a dynamic and responsive approach to change. One issue that...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Garda Stations (15 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: 29. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda stations that are operating on a part-time basis, that is, less than a full 24-hour period; the provisions that have been made to compensate districts affected by a reduced face-to-face service with An Garda Síochána and/or a station operating on reduced hours; when the six stations due to reopen under a pilot...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Garda Stations (15 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: This question relates to the number of Garda stations that are open on a part-time basis and to a pilot proposal to open an additional six stations, and if there is any intention to expand the scheme beyond those six stations.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Garda Stations (15 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: Many stations are open in theory but in fact they are closed most of the time. That is one of the criticisms I hear constantly. It will be important that the Policing Authority will consider the policing plans. I have never found and I have looked at them each year that they really do what the Minister says they should do in other words the demographic shifts and crime levels determine the...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (15 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: Yesterday, we were told that this year is the warmest year on record. We heard the President-elect of the United States, Mr. Trump, say he would tear up the Paris Agreement. We will miss the 2020 target in terms of our own commitment, but what position are we currently at in terms of the sectoral plans for agriculture, transport and the built environment? When are we likely to see progress...