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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) (13 Oct 2016)

Catherine Connolly: Yes. While the minutes state the discussion was to support the board's consideration, they do not tell us what was said. They tell us lots of other things. The document states the discussion included external member feedback on the proposed approach to support the board's consideration, but it does not tell us what that feedback was.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Catherine Connolly: Thie meeting of 7 October was Mr. Cushnahan's last.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Catherine Connolly: He did not appear again after that.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Catherine Connolly: As has been pointed out, the next meeting was held in December and the meeting after that was held in April. At that stage, the sale of Project Eagle had been completed.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Catherine Connolly: I have a number of quick questions. It has been said repeatedly by different witnesses from NAMA - this was touched on by Deputy Bobby Aylward - that the Northern debtors were cranky, that they were not working or playing ball and that the market was extremely bad. I have looked at all of the minutes and the Comptroller and Auditor General included a reference to this. The market and rents...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Catherine Connolly: This is noted throughout the minutes. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Catherine Connolly: There was investor interest.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Catherine Connolly: Various briefing documents to the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, confirm that more than two thirds of the debtors were working hand in hand with NAMA. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Catherine Connolly: On what Mr. Rowntree has said about not knowing about Project Eagle and so on, how does he reconcile this with NAMA's statement that no confidential information was put before him? He has clearly stated today, in terms of the University of Ulster report, that there was confidential information.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Catherine Connolly: What happened to the University of Ulster report?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Catherine Connolly: It just went off the agenda.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Catherine Connolly: It was obviously no longer relevant in relation to NAMA because the portfolio had been sold.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Catherine Connolly: The portfolio represented 3% of the overall property with which NAMA was dealing.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Catherine Connolly: I have one or two final questions. When the Minister for Finance was before the committee, I put it to him that he had stated in September 2013 that Project Eagle was the only game in town. He denied making this statement and described it as not accurate. It is, however, included in one of the notes taken after a Northern Ireland meeting. He said it in September 2013. Was Mr. Rowntree...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Catherine Connolly: The advisers - Brown Rudnick in London and Tughans - had to sign non-disclosure agreements when they went into the data room. Was Mr. Rowntree aware of this?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Catherine Connolly: They had signed a non-disclosure agreement, which means that they could not disclose any information, yet the same two firms went forward to Cerberus. Can Mr. Rowntree comment on this?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Catherine Connolly: Mr. Rowntree cannot comment on it.

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Catherine Connolly: With their acute awareness of the crisis in housing, health, public transport and water services, the voters in the recent general election elected us not to limit the debate on how we could reduce taxes but to change the debate and, among other matters, to look at what level of tax was required for the country to provide the essential services, which are a prerequisite for a cohesive and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (11 Oct 2016)

Catherine Connolly: 434. To ask the Minister for Health the number and nature of the non-elective procedures that have been cancelled per month since January 2016 to date in Galway University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29604/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Provision (11 Oct 2016)

Catherine Connolly: 435. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that have been identified as appropriate for discharge but cannot be discharged due to inadequate follow-up services, including the provision of home care packages, home help hours, respite beds and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29605/16]