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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (4 Oct 2016)

David Cullinane: 371. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the design team sketches or plans for the building of a second catheterisation laboratory at University Hospital Waterford; and if any plan or sketch involved the moving of the orthodontic unit at the hospital. [28108/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (4 Oct 2016)

David Cullinane: 372. To ask the Minister for Health if, following the submission of a business case and a design plan for a second catheterisation laboratory for University Hospital Waterford, the associated process has resulted in the hospital being in a queue for capital funding for same. [28109/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (4 Oct 2016)

David Cullinane: 373. To ask the Minister for Health the meaning of the south east, as defined by a commitment in a report (details supplied) that University Hospital Waterford would provide invasive cardiology services to the south east; the way in which the south east is defined geographically and by population; the meaning of invasive cardiology services and the services which constitute as invasive; and...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (4 Oct 2016)

David Cullinane: 601. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the definition of entrepreneur that is used by her Department when framing legislation and in particular tax relief schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28271/16]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2016)

David Cullinane: I would like to raise a separate issue.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2016)

David Cullinane: Yes. It relates to this meeting and a discussion that flows from our last meeting. The issue is whether any members of this committee have received correspondence or calls from NAMA in relation to briefings. There was some reporting to that effect. Did any member of this committee-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2016)

David Cullinane: I want to know whether any member was offered a briefing by NAMA.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2016)

David Cullinane: I am asking about members other than the Chair.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2016)

David Cullinane: Was the Chair offered a briefing?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2016)

David Cullinane: At least one more member was offered a briefing. I refer to an Teachta Kelly. Is that right?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2016)

David Cullinane: Nobody else received such an offer.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)

David Cullinane: I thank the Chairman for that clarification and I welcome the witnesses. I first of all want to focus on the Comptroller and Auditor General's report and the 58 findings. I want to try to establish on what basis those findings were made and whether they were findings based on facts, documentary evidence and experience within NAMA; apologies, experience within the Comptroller and Auditor...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)

David Cullinane: Okay. With regard to some of Mr. McCarthy's own findings, if I can call them that, there are 38 findings or conclusions, would that be a fair-----

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)

David Cullinane: The summary, yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)

David Cullinane: Is it fair to call them findings, 58 findings?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)

David Cullinane: Number 7 reads: "There is no indication that NAMA or its Board had given consideration to a bulk sale of either its loan collateral in Northern Ireland or of the loans of the debtors based in Northern Ireland prior to Brown Rudnick’s correspondence in June 2013." Number 8 states that "NAMA has stated that, although not recorded formally, it considered and rejected alternative...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)

David Cullinane: It spoke about the aim of the updated strategy:The aim was to protect and enhance the value of property assets in Northern Ireland by maximising rental income, dispose of the property in the medium to long term (2014 to 2017), prioritise the disposal of grade A commercial property in Belfast, explore opportunities for the block sale of multi-unit properties, subject to a critical assessment...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)

David Cullinane: The Comptroller and Auditor General stated earlier that he had some interesting discussions on semantics with the members of NAMA on the meaning of certain words in the context of the sales process, the sales strategy and the work-out value, the sales value, etc. As part of the preparation for this report, the Comptroller and Auditor General would have had a lot of communication with NAMA on...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)

David Cullinane: In the Comptroller and Auditor General's report, paragraphs 52 to 58, inclusive, deal with conflicts of interest, both in respect of Mr. Cushnahan and the presence of success fees with regard to both Cerberus and PIMCO. Were those findings or the Comptroller and Auditor General's conclusions challenged by NAMA in any of the discussions that took place?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)

David Cullinane: But the agency had a response. It would have received a draft of this report, which makes a number of very serious findings, in my view, or draws a number of conclusions.