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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) (25 Oct 2016)
Catherine Connolly: Yes, that Cerberus had employed Brown Rudnick and Tughans and that NAMA was aware of this prior to the making of the bid on 1 April.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)
Catherine Connolly: It is a "Yes" or "No" answer.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)
Catherine Connolly: Is it not?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)
Catherine Connolly: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)
Catherine Connolly: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)
Catherine Connolly: I am not arguing over one, two or three days. I am saying that prior to that time-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)
Catherine Connolly: Prior to 1 April - let us take that date as the cut-off point - was NAMA aware that Brown Rudnick and Tughans were acting for Cerberus?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)
Catherine Connolly: Absolutely not.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)
Catherine Connolly: Yes, but I am asking a question and stuck for time. It is a "Yes" or "No" answer.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)
Catherine Connolly: That is fine.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)
Catherine Connolly: From the documentation submitted, I understand there is an onus on the legal or property advisers to tell NAMA, and that NAMA asked, through Lazard, to be told who the advisers were. Did that happen?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)
Catherine Connolly: Is there an obligation on any bidder to specifically set out in writing who its legal and property advisers are?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)
Catherine Connolly: This is my third time to ask the question today. The witnesses know more than we do. It is crucial. We have gone around in circles asking when NAMA became aware that Cerberus had the same set of legal advisers. The witnesses tell me it was not before 3 April. I asked whether there was an obligation on the bidder to tell NAMA who its advisers were. The witnesses have said there was an...
- Syrian Conflict: Statements (20 Oct 2016)
Catherine Connolly: I have no hesitation in saying on the record that I condemn the atrocities that are happening in Syria perpetrated by the Syrian Governments and the Russians. However, the comments made by the leader of Fianna Fáil are both infantile and dangerous when he said that we do not want to condemn Russia or to say that this has arisen from one particular source. That is to simplify matters in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)
Catherine Connolly: Could we agree to acknowledge the letter but to discuss the proposal in private session?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)
Catherine Connolly: It is just to consider it. It is difficult to consider it-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)
Catherine Connolly: It is not in private or public but rather in this manner when we are going to discuss social welfare very soon. It is difficult to consider it now. I have just seen it for the first time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)
Catherine Connolly: It is just to think about it. Lazard has been quoted repeatedly at our meetings as backing up a certain viewpoint. I need to think about that. We have not used Lazard, but NAMA has repeatedly used it to say "This is what Lazard said".
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)
Catherine Connolly: Will the Chairman clarify whether the Northern Ireland deputy First Minister, Mr. Martin McGuinness, will attend a meeting of the committee next Wednesday? I have that down in my diary.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015 (20 Oct 2016) Catherine Connolly: I welcome the witnesses. I found the report at the end of 2015 very interesting. Social Justice Ireland has pointed out that, in 2014, in the absence of social welfare benefits half of the Irish population would have been living in poverty so the Department has a very onerous task on its hands in respect of equality. I agree with my colleague that the Department has a huge budget, at more...