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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) (6 Oct 2016)
Michael Noonan: It came up in the conversation. He briefed me on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)
Michael Noonan: He briefed me on the fact that the contact between PIMCO and NAMA was being discontinued because PIMCO had advised NAMA that its ethics committee in the United States had advised it that there were payments to be made arising from-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)
Michael Noonan: -----if there was a successful sale.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)
Michael Noonan: But is that not what Deputy Connolly is asking me?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)
Michael Noonan: Everyone would be concerned if he or she thought there was a criminal offence committed-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)
Michael Noonan: -----but I am not saying that there was a criminal offence committed-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)
Michael Noonan: -----because the Chairman has warned us.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)
Michael Noonan: If Deputy Connolly is trying to prove-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)
Michael Noonan: -----that I had an involvement, I did not.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)
Michael Noonan: It was the board of NAMA appointed him on the recommendation of the then Northern Ireland Finance Minister.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)
Michael Noonan: No, it was not approved by me.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)
Michael Noonan: No, it was a matter for the board of NAMA.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)
Michael Noonan: It was the late Deputy Brian Lenihan who was Minister when Mr. Cushnahan was appointed, not me.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)
Michael Noonan: I never said politics had no role in NAMA.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)
Michael Noonan: No, what I said was that politicians had no role in the commercial decisions of NAMA. That is a different thing.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)
Michael Noonan: No, I did not say that at all. There is a record of the meeting generated by the private secretary to the then Northern Ireland First Minster, Mr. Peter Robinson. The minute of the meeting I have is different in that respect. Mr. Declan Reid was at the meeting in Stormont and he will verify what happened there, if Deputy Connolly wants to ask him questions.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)
Michael Noonan: The general thrust of it is correct but the issue about there being only one buyer is blatantly incorrect.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)
Michael Noonan: I am on the record in several other places as telling the Northern Ireland authorities there had to be a competitive tender and best price had to be got for the Irish taxpayer.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)
Michael Noonan: Can we get Mr. Reid, who was there?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)
Michael Noonan: I do not want anything like this on the record for any longer.