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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)
Seán Fleming: Absolutely. We will deal with that when it is read into the record. That is important.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)
Seán Fleming: We now come to items 167B(i) and (ii), correspondence from NAMA attaching a document on impairment figures and Project Eagle. We have noted and published that and will put it in our Project Eagle folder. Category C is correspondence from private individuals. Items 120C(i) to (iii) deal with a letter from an individual on alleged illegal state aid to the construction sector. The issues...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)
Seán Fleming: Yes. I am giving a timetable now and saying that we are sending it to the parliamentary legal adviser. Essentially, we will be busy until December with our current programme. I am saying that we will have dealt with this by the end of January. I am putting a specific timetable on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)
Seán Fleming: Exactly. I am saying it will be by the end of January and I hope we can meet that. That is what we want to do. Item 127C is an e-mail from the Charity Regulator, Ms Melissa Moloney, responding to a letter from the committee about a charity in Bantry. A more substantive response is to follow. We note that. Is that agreed? Agreed. Items 128C(i) and (ii) comprise a letter from Deputy...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)
Seán Fleming: How long will it take to publish them after that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)
Seán Fleming: Once the Comptroller and Auditor General signs off, it will be back to the board to publish.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)
Seán Fleming: Item 133C is a letter from the HSE regarding Meath disability service and an individual who wrote to us regarding housing arrangements. The response is comprehensive. We will forward this to the individual concerned. I propose we also inform him that as his complaints have been considered through the proper for a, including the Office of the Ombudsman, the committee considers the matter...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)
Seán Fleming: I will not give the name. It is in the correspondence. The relevant items are 145 to 147C in today's correspondence. The name of the gentleman is on the screen but I do not want to publish his name at this stage. You can check your file afterwards if you want to follow it up further. Items 149C(i) and (ii) are correspondence received from the executive directors of Trócaire and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)
Seán Fleming: I will make a suggestion to the Deputy. Perhaps we should take the opportunity to review the reply from NTMA dated 16 September. If you wish, we will hold the correspondence over until the next meeting. Have a look at it. The NTMA representatives maintain they are drawing up a policy to deal with the matter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)
Seán Fleming: It will come in. We will get the NTMA 2016 annual report next year. We brought it up in the context of the NTMA annual report and we will do that again.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)
Seán Fleming: That is what the agency representatives have said. When they are before the committee next year we will check it out. We will send it back to the two organisations and to the other committee, because it is under the policy area of that committee. Item 152C is a letter from an individual referring to a freedom of information request that was sent to the Committee of Public Accounts....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)
Seán Fleming: The organisation is stuck with an empty building and it is paying the lease. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)
Seán Fleming: We will note that and note the comments of the Comptroller and Auditor General. Next is the work programme. I gather everyone has the work programme for the coming weeks. We will start with the Comptroller and Auditor General shortly. After that we will hear from officials from the Department of Finance. Next Wednesday, the Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister, Mr. Martin McGuinness,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)
Seán Fleming: Yes, we can discuss that.
- 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)
Seán Fleming: Today the committee will continue its examination of the Comptroller and Auditor General's special report No. 94 on the National Asset Management Agency, or NAMA as it is better known, and its sale of Project Eagle. Project Eagle was the code name given to the sale of NAMA's Northern Ireland loan portfolio. To date, we have met representatives of NAMA, the Minister for Finance, Deputy...
- 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)
Seán Fleming: We will put the questions to the Comptroller and Auditor General. Obviously, we will write to NAMA for a detailed paragraph-by-paragraph response. We will not all ask the questions that need to be asked because it will have to respond paragraph by paragraph. I want to move on. Can we move on or does the Deputy want to raise anything else? We will ask the Comptroller and Auditor General...
- 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)
Seán Fleming: I call Deputy McDonald to be followed by Deputy Catherine Murphy.
- 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)
Seán Fleming: Broker's fee.
- 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)
Seán Fleming: We are going to conclude on this particular issue. The request so far is to write to Brown Rudnick and Mr. Tuvi Keinan. That is two requests. A request has been made publicly and it has been agreed to invite Mr. Ronnie Hanna to attend. That is three. We will write back to PIMCO to seek clarification on the success fee and the other options issue, as Deputy Catherine Murphy said, and when...
- 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)
Seán Fleming: I am coming to the Comptroller and Auditor General. He is the next speaker.