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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) (10 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: We also heard that there was no disadvantage to anyone who subsequently entered the process. Given the timelines involved, does Mr. McCarthy accept that that is correct? Was there an advantage to someone who was in the process earlier?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: Time could have been a serious factor in terms of achieving the best financial outcome.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: Mr. McCarthy stated that he would stand over his report. Is there anything in it that he would strengthen?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: Earlier, I asked the Comptroller and Auditor General a question regarding the role of his office in the day-to-day workings of NAMA because the impression was created during some earlier hearings, and explicitly again this morning, that the Comptroller and Auditor General had a large team in NAMA examining its every transaction. It is this "impression" I would like to focus on. In response...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: The point is that the Department does not have a culture of being forthcoming with information, in my experience. For example, I have tabled many questions on the same broad topic. If the first question had been answered it would have been to the Department's credit in terms of accountability. It looks like the same pattern will have pertained in relation to this. In other words, the...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: When it was raised in the Dáil regarding-----

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: It was raised in the Dáil in advance of July 2014.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: I will leave the point and return to it. I may return to it in writing.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: After that it was dismissed by way of questions.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: Maybe we need to ask the Minister directly rather than Ms Nolan.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: What was asked was very forthright. On the reduction in the timeline from 2020 to 2018 in terms of the disposal of the assets, Ms Nolan made the point that one would not want to be left with assets in such an environment in 2020. Neither would one want to be left with them in 2018. The same set of circumstances apply. It truncates the timeline in which one can dispose of the assets. Did...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: I will read the report. Would Ms Nolan regard it as a coincidence that the reserve price was the same as the price being offered for the asset, or did the Department consider it, even in retrospect?

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Uisce faoi Úinéireacht Phoiblí) (Uimh. 2) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to share time with Deputies Seamus Healy and Eamon Ryan. The issue of water has dominated the political agenda for the past number of years, not just because of the injustice of the charge and how it was couched but because of the very dishonest way it was implemented. I have said repeatedly in the House that this is not just about water. There are many reasons for the unrest....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gambling Sector (9 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: 66. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the practice of online betting companies using software to track persons' online betting habits to target them for marketing purposes in view of the fact some betting companies claim the software is an anti-fraud measure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33998/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gambling Sector (9 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: 67. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to appoint a dedicated gambling regulator; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33999/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gambling Sector (9 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: 68. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications for certificates of personal fitness from remote operators and terrestrial bookmakers not ordinarily resident in the State made in the past five years in tabular form broken down by company name and year; the number of successful applicants and the number of those refused; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gambling Sector (9 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: 69. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications for certificates of personal fitness from remote operators and terrestrial bookmakers resident in the State made in the past seven years in tabular form broken down by company name and year; the number of successful applicants; the number of those refused; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34006/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Yield (9 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: 80. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 110 and 111 of 2 November 2016, if he will consider the introduction of a method to record the information returned in VAT returns to include the identification of the yield from a particular activity and or product; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33904/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Local Authority Staff (9 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: 119. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason local government employees employed post January 2013 pay PRSI class K contributions and not A1 contributions; his plans to review this policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33960/16]