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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 would depend on the advice was but I will ask Ms Nolan.
- 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: At the risk of complimenting the Chairman, I believe his intervention has been quite helpful.
- 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.
- 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 I gave advice.
- 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 said I received a lot of information and I had several conversations.
- 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 specified that I had advised that it would transfer more liveable residential property to local authorities for social housing.
- 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 asked it if it could produce up to 20,000 houses, principally in Dublin. Whether it was a request or advice, the Deputy can put his own words 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: I asked it to develop the strategic development zone in order that we would have sufficient office space for the financial services-----
- 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 thank the Deputy for asking me the question.
- 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 became aware of it around the time of these discussions here, but I knew that there was a commitment from PIMCO to pay some money to Mr. Cushnahan when the chairman of NAMA, Frank Daly, advised me of the fact when he was informing me, first, that PIMCO had withdrawn or was pushed out, as the case may be, and, second, that he was taking advice from Lazard to see if it was viable to continue...
- 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-----
- 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 answering the question now. The Deputy is doing what other people do as well.
- 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 is framing questions as allegations. There has been a lot of information put into the public domain about this. Some of it has been on radio programmes, on the "Spotlight" programme, and debates in the North.
- 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 not counting down the clock. I will stay here all night if the Deputy wishes.
- 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: NAMA did not give me information about Frank Cushnahan representing debtors, but I heard somewhere of 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: I think it came from a "Spotlight" programme.
- 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 not sure what the source of it was, and the information is recent to 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: Practically everything the Deputy has recited is based in Northern Ireland which is not in my jurisdiction or within my remit as Minister for Finance. Second, Sinn Féin has been using these events as a political weapon in Northern Ireland to attack the DUP, particularly the then First Minister, Mr. Peter Robinson.
- 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 is 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 is not a red herring. The Deputy is following a similar practice-----