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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) (13 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: Did Mr. Rowntree receive copies of the report to take away?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: Before we go, did Deputy Catherine Murphy indicate?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: Deputy Catherine Murphy has not contributed yet. I apologise, Deputy David Cullinane has indicated next. My mistake. I ask Mr. Rowntree to clarify one thing he has mentioned quite a bit in the "Spotlight" programme, namely, that NIAC members had access to information of a commercially-sensitive nature and which offered commercial opportunities. That is the point he has been making all...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: Yes. On several occasions, Frank Daly stated to this committee and to the Northern Ireland Assembly committee that external members of the NIAC did not gain any confidential information or any useful insider information from being a member of that advisory committee.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: Mr. Rowntree is reiterating that. On the face of it, two different statements appear to flatly contradict each other and I am wondering if they do. We will put this question to Mr. Daly. Is it possible that, as Mr. Rowntree said, he got commercially sensitive information and it represented a commercial opportunity? We will put it to Mr. Daly that from his point of view maybe he is talking...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: Does Mr. Rowntree get the subtle distinction?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: It is quite possible Mr. Frank Daly might say, "Yes, you had this general information, and yes, you saw the report, but you did not have any debtor sensitive information".

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: Would one be right in saying that?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: Would Mr. Rowntree slow down and repeat that for me?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: It is possible but on the face of it, it does not look like it.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: I am not analysing.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: We will tease it out further. That is all I am saying. I just put it because it looks like a conflict. We will have to ask NAMA again on this. I call Deputy Cullinane.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: I call 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) (13 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: Could the Deputy help me as I might have missed it at the beginning? What document is Deputy McDonald reading from?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: It is just we did not have it on screen.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: We will take Deputy Connolly and then Deputy Aylward. We are nearly there

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: We will raise the matter directly with NAMA. Considerable emphasis has been placed on the University of Ulster report today and we will seek a copy of it. I am conscious that Ulster Bank, Santander Bank and other entities may have contributed to the report and that, therefore, it may not be in NAMA's gift to provide a copy for the committee. However, we can ask for a copy. On achieving...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: I am not sure where we saw it, but it has been indicated in several reports that 50% of the assets were in Northern Ireland, 38% were in----- That might have been asset location as opposed to valuation and-----

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: Perhaps the Comptroller and Auditor General could clarify that.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: By value?