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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)

Bobby Aylward: Would success fees be normal in these sorts of deals?

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)

Bobby Aylward: I have an observation to make. In hindsight, Mr. Rowntree must be disappointed. Having been a member of an advisory board in Northern Ireland which had been in place for many reasons and having for many years advised on asset control and sales, all of a sudden the committee was dismissed, NAMA took a different route and the committee was forgotten about. That must have been disappointing...

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)

Bobby Aylward: We did not know much about the University of Ulster report before today. It appears to be significant, yet no one has seen it, other than members of the advisory committee who saw it privately. Should NAMA have looked at it more? I presume considerable finance and research went into the report which was never used. If the committee had access to it, it would have a better insight into the...

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)

Bobby Aylward: We do not see that anywhere.

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)

Bobby Aylward: May we seek that 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)

Bobby Aylward: Sure, we will never know.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (13 Oct 2016)

Bobby Aylward: 128. To ask the Minister for Health if the prioritisation for a second cath lab at University Hospital Waterford was previously assessed and approved by the South/South West Hospital Group prior to commissioning of the Herity report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30010/16]

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Bobby Aylward: I welcome much of what I consider to be a reasonable budget, but I will focus on a number of areas in which the Government needs to do more. The €5 increase in social welfare payments and all old-age pension payments is very welcome. However, I have serious concerns that these measures will remove the focus from the astronomical delays being endured by those who applied for...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Bobby Aylward: There would be no companies left.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Home Renovation Incentive Scheme Administration (11 Oct 2016)

Bobby Aylward: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has examined the possibility of extending the home renovation incentive scheme beyond the current deadline of 31 December 2016 for homeowners and landlords; if there are any plans within his Department for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29664/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (11 Oct 2016)

Bobby Aylward: 337. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to a query (details supplied) to acknowledge that my office is fully aware of the application for Leader funding and the details of same; if she will address the original question put forward to her Department in August 2016 inquiring about any avenue of funding available to supplement this project in line with commitments...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Feed in Tariff Scheme Applications (11 Oct 2016)

Bobby Aylward: 566. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to a query (details supplied) if the person concerned has already received REFIT approval from his Department; if he will address the original question put forward to his Department in June 2016 inquiring about any avenue of funding available in same to supplement this project in line with commitments made by...

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)

Bobby Aylward: As did everyone else, I welcome the Minister. I thank him for coming before the committee and fair play to him for being here. Given NAMA's autonomy, and it has its own business to do and no one can interfere and there can be no political interference, the only body that really can question it and have oversight of it is the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General in its report, and...

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)

Bobby Aylward: The Minister and the officials from the Department of Finance cannot interfere in the autonomy of sales. If the Minister or the officials saw something wrong can they, under the remit, move in and state it is not right or ask NAMA to stop?

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)

Bobby Aylward: Yes, and this was touched on already. Was the Minister worried at any stage when he learned of the fee share arrangement, particular with regard to Mr. Cushnahan and his involvement on the Northern Ireland advisory committee, and other personnel, whom we will not mention, who had a fee share arrangement. At any stage was the Minister worried personally about this? Was it of concern to him...

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)

Bobby Aylward: But there were some personnel and particular companies involved with PIMCO that went on subsequently with Cerberus and got funding and fees were arranged. I know the Minister has no say, but was he worried at that stage about continuing on with Cerberus after PIMCO withdrew? Did the Minister have any concerns?

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)

Bobby Aylward: So it was only afterwards that the Minister and the officials found out about the involvement of Tughans with Cerberus as well as having been originally involved with PIMCO.

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)

Bobby Aylward: There is a lot of disquiet over this and it is obvious that there is something wrong here. A Northern Ireland committee was set up and has done a review. We are here doing a review. There are inquiries in the UK and the United States, and more than likely the Minister will set up an inquiry shortly. What is the Minister's comment on this? Why do we have all these inquiries and reviews if...

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)

Bobby Aylward: The old cliché that there is no smoke without fire comes to mind.

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)

Bobby Aylward: I accept the Minister's wisdom on that. To finish up, there is much criticism of the Department of Finance in the review by the Northern Ireland Committee for Finance and Personnel. I read some of the report and it is very critical of the Minister. It stated that "given the seriousness of the revelation by PIMCO, it is unclear why the Irish Government’s Minister for Finance, Michael...