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- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: Where did you meet?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: Are you referring to the board meeting or the meeting with Mr. Maloney and Mr. McNamara?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: Why?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: I am mindful of the chairman's instruction at the start of the meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: We will note that. The substantive outcome from that meeting was that Mr. McNamara had indicated that the site could go for more than €400 million but that you indicated back to him that the board at that stage only had agreement to go up to €375 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: He also indicated a change in the funding mechanism behind the bid from him.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: In the meeting on 24 October, you indicated that for his own part, the chairman advised he was a non-executive director of Anglo Irish Bank and would not be involved in the executive decisions relating to funding with the bank. Could you explain what you mean by that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: Mr. Bradshaw will see why I am asking this question-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: -----because this means the Minister of the day was looking at a proposal and he thought the purchase figure was €220 million when, in fact, it was in the region of €370 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: There is no formal evidence that the DDDA communicated, in writing, to the Department of the Environment the correct figure.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: What does Mr. Bradshaw mean that the authority had become politicised?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: We will move to the latter part of this narrative which is the meeting of Tuesday, 24 October at 8 a.m. This meeting was specifically instigated to give agreement to go ahead with the tender for the purchase of the site. Out of all the people present - Mr. Bradshaw, Ms Cavendish, Mr Curtin, Mr. FitzPatrick, Mr. McCourt, Ms Moylan, Ms Sullivan and Ms O'Connor, the board members, and in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: She was also a member of the board.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: This is the most fundamental aspect of it, though, as the letter was looking for ministerial consent to go ahead and borrow.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: To increase the debt capacity. I thank Mr. Bradshaw for the prompt. It sought a green light to go ahead with the proposal.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: What does Mr. Bradshaw mean by a board pack?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: Where is that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: So the phrase "A copy of the application for consent is attached" refers to this letter?