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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) (25 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: Deputy Cullinane, briefly, and we will try to wrap up.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: That should be in the information pack we received at lunch time. I thank Mr. Moriarty, Mr. Collison, Mr. Stewart and M. Rooney for participating in the meeting. We have found their evidence helpful to us. There will be further engagement with former board members of NAMA and the current chief executive officer and chairman in due course. We indicated during the meeting that there were...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (25 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: 365. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when public bodies' tender documents specify alternative evidence can be provided where a company turnover does not match that specified in the tender document in relation to public contracts; the evidence which is accepted by the contracting authority; if his attention has been drawn to the different levels of evidence accepted by...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (25 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: 366. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the required level of turnover that can be specified in the tender documents relative to the estimated contract price by public bodies, including local authorities; the mechanisms in place to ensure there is a level of consistency in relation to these matters by public bodies; if he is satisfied that where some public bodies have a...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, a permanent witness to the committee. Mr. McCarthy is accompanied by his colleague, Mr. Paul Southern, deputy director of audit. No apologies have been received in respect of today's meeting. Are the minutes of the meeting of 13 October 2016 agreed? Agreed. As there are no further matters arising from the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: We can, of course, but there is no private session plan. We are in public session.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: In private.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: To be helpful, have people seen the letter? It is very short, only half a page long. I ask people to think about it. We wrote to NAMA and the agency confirmed that the documentation it received from Lazard was marked confidential. On that basis, it sought Lazard's prior consent to providing the correspondence to the committee. In response, Lazard has stated that it is willing to provide...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: We will hold it over until next Tuesday's meeting and try to finalise it then.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: We published a work programme and it is on that. Was it not on it earlier? I thought last Tuesday's meeting was well notified.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: The work programme will always be in draft form as it is always subject to change.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: No. We will deal with the work programme in a moment. We will hold over the correspondence in connection with Lazard until the next meeting.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: Deputy MacSharry is suggesting that we pursue NAMA on making sure we have all the information we request.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: Fine. We will return to that at the next meeting because fair points have been raised this morning. The next item is 113B, correspondence received from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform informing the committee of the appointment of Commissioner John McMahon as chairman and accounting officer of the Office of Public Works. I take this opportunity to thank the outgoing...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: Mr. McGuinness will appear before the committee on Wednesday, 16 November. The meeting was intended to take place next Wednesday, 26 October, but Mr. McGuinness will be out of the country at that time. The meeting was rearranged to accommodate his schedule.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: Do they have to attend a party meeting on a Tuesday?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: The committee decided that in order to avoid interference with our normal Thursday workload, our deliberations on Project Eagle would require additional meetings. Today, we are hearing from officials at the Department of Social Protection and last week we had witnesses from the Revenue Commissioners. Continuing our regular work programme has necessitated having additional meetings on a...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: We are not allowed to meet on Tuesday afternoons because the Dáil is sitting. That is one of the components of Dáil reform. I see the sense in having it Tuesday afternoon but the rules of the House require us to avoid meetings when the Dáil is in plenary session. That forces us to have the meeting in the morning. However, as the Deputy will see from the work programme, that...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: Absolutely. Once the public hearings on Project Eagle are out of the way, there should not be too much more in the way of additional meetings.