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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)
Seán Fleming: Why would Lazard not have attended?
- 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)
Seán Fleming: The witness was not there but could a meeting like that, or information gleaned at it, have had an impact on the bids submitted? It is very strange that the person running the bidding process was not there. Other sales are not quite the same as selling State assets. These are State assets being sold by the Irish State and any loss will be carried by the Irish public. Similarly, on the...
- 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)
Seán Fleming: Deputy McDonald has asked if Mr. Long was aware of a similar type meeting or contact with Fortress around the same time.
- 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)
Seán Fleming: Separate from Lazard's involvement?
- 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)
Seán Fleming: I thank the witness. The speakers for our second round have indicated in the following sequence: Deputies Connolly, Cullinane, Madigan, Catherine Murphy, McDonald and Burke. I propose a ten minute break and then we will resume for another hour.
- 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)
Seán Fleming: We are back in public session. The next speaker is Deputy Catherine Connolly.
- 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)
Seán Fleming: Deputy Connolly has nearly finished her time.
- 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)
Seán Fleming: Mr. Long is saying that it is a matter for NAMA.
- 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)
Seán Fleming: Was April 2013 not mentioned in the NAMA minutes?
- 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)
Seán Fleming: It was mentioned before.
- 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)
Seán Fleming: I thank Deputy Madigan. The next speaker is Deputy Murphy.
- 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)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy is wrong. Cerberus confirmed that there is no payment that involved any current or former member of NAMA.
- 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)
Seán Fleming: There is concern but the evidence says the opposite.
- 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)
Seán Fleming: The evidence to date does not confirm that.
- 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)
Seán Fleming: That issue not clear, the Deputy should identify it.
- 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)
Seán Fleming: Yes, on one point.
- 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)
Seán Fleming: I have one or two final questions. I thank Mr. Long for his time; we are almost finished. Issues arose during the process. Did the letter Lazard gave to NAMA at the end of the day deal with the two competitive bids that were on the table and on which Lazard was adjudicating or did it refer to the whole process that had potentially nine bidders because Lazard only received two? In Mr....
- 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)
Seán Fleming: Throughout the process.
- 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)
Seán Fleming: Then tell me briefly, at the very end did Cerberus and Fortress know that there were only the two of them in the race?
- 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)
Seán Fleming: They would have known that at that stage.