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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) (16 Nov 2016)
Catherine Connolly: It certainly was. The report was embargoed until 20 March 2013. Is Mr. McGuinness aware of that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)
Catherine Connolly: Mr. McGuinness will be aware of a very serious factual situation outlined at paragraph 37 which states: "[]his involvement was totally unethical and could and should have been avoided".
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)
Catherine Connolly: Mr. McGuinness is aware of that report. He is aware that was raised.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)
Catherine Connolly: Public Accounts Committee, Report on the Northern Ireland Housing Executive: Management of Response Maintenance Contracts. It states: "Ordered by the Public Accounts Committee to be printed 20 February 2013." That is a detailed written report. I presume Mr. McGuinness has read that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)
Catherine Connolly: Perhaps Mr. McGuinness could go back and read it to see the issue I am raising. At that point the issue of conflict of interest was raised. I would have thought in Northern Ireland Mr. McGuinness and his colleagues would have thought, "Oh, good Lord. We'll look at that now. Is that an appropriate person to have on the Northern Ireland advisory committee?" That is a question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)
Catherine Connolly: I am saying to the deputy First Minister that that looks very serious to me. I appreciate we have the benefit of hindsight. At the time that was a very serious report and a very serious statement about a conflict of interest.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)
Catherine Connolly: Absolutely, but he continued to sit on the Northern Ireland advisory committee following that - I will not use the word "damning" - very serious report. He continued to sit on the Northern Ireland advisory committee up to November 2013. Mr. McGuinness was aware of that; he did not raise any issues about that or think there was something wrong here and that he should perhaps question it...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)
Catherine Connolly: I am going to ask him a question now. I have to make that comment first. I have made it to many of the witnesses and I want to be fair; Mr. McGuinness has done the exact same thing. I asked him one very specific question. The next question is as follows. When he found out that the note of the phone call, the conference call, was not accurate, what did he do about it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)
Catherine Connolly: When did Mr. McGuinness become aware it was not accurate? It is very serious.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)
Catherine Connolly: That was last year.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)
Catherine Connolly: Sometime in late-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)
Catherine Connolly: I heard that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)
Catherine Connolly: That is okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)
Catherine Connolly: I appreciate that and I appreciate that he only became aware of it. However, did he then write in to state this was not accurate or complete? This has already been put to him by other Deputies. If so, can we have a copy of that letter where he took them to task, rightly so if they did not record accurately what happened.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)
Catherine Connolly: He did not.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)
Catherine Connolly: So, he did not write to them and say, "This is inaccurate. This is what I said. It should have been recorded."
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)
Catherine Connolly: That is okay; he did not do that. Regarding contact, in his opening statement Mr. McGuinness said there was only one contact. Is that right?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)
Catherine Connolly: In his opening statement Mr. McGuinness said there was only one contact - the conference call. He said: "As deputy First Minister, my only involvement was a conference call, on 14 January 2014, with 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) (16 Nov 2016)
Catherine Connolly: That was afterwards.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)
Catherine Connolly: Prior to the sale, this was his only contact regarding Project Eagle.