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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)
Peter Burke: Would Mr. McGuinness not concur that, basically, the Minister has no jurisdiction over making an operational decision within NAMA?
- 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)
Peter Burke: With regard to how this was executed, the Minister could not ring and say "I am selling all of Project Eagle" because he does not have the authority or the jurisdiction to do that. It is very clearly laid out in the National Asset Management Agency Act 2009 that NAMA is totally independent in its performance. Therefore, the Minister could not execute that. It is not in his power to sell...
- 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)
Peter Burke: Mr. McGuinness is changing his language.
- 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)
Peter Burke: We need to be very factual here. The Minister does not have the authority to execute what Mr. McGuinness has stated.
- 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)
Peter Burke: Mr. McGuinness said in his opening statement that "Since then, we have all become aware that a number of other meetings and engagements took place involving various combinations of the Minister, Deputy Noonan, Northern Democratic Unionist Party, DUP, Ministers and representatives of NAMA, Cerberus and PIMCO". Does he not think that line is grossly misleading in view of the fact that the...
- 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)
Peter Burke: Mr. McGuinness is clouding the issue.
- 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)
Peter Burke: Yes, but we need to give an objective view. We have seen how Mr. McGuinness analysed draft orders in his office. We have heard that from previous speakers. I find it absolutely incredible that a person of his stature would make a statement like that which I have quoted and which would imply to any objective person reading it that the Minister met Cerberus and PIMCO. I think that is very...
- 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)
Peter Burke: I think we should put that on the record very clearly.
- 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)
Peter Burke: Mr. McGuinness's opening statement did.
- 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)
Peter Burke: He was not meeting Cerberus or PIMCO and that is exactly the implication that is given in the paragraph of Mr. McGuinness's opening statement from which I have quoted.
- 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)
Peter Burke: It is very clear.
- 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)
Peter Burke: Mr. McGuinness said it very clearly there.
- 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)
Peter Burke: A Chathaoirligh, I think it is very important-----
- 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)
Peter Burke: -----that we deal in facts.
- 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)
Peter Burke: That is very clearly-----
- 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)
Peter Burke: The next point I want to make relates to a phone call in which Mr. McGuinness essentially sang dumb in the room.
- 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)
Peter Burke: Let me finish, please.
- 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)
Peter Burke: Let me finish. This was a major sale because it involved 56 debtor connections and 900 properties in Northern Ireland. Mr. McGuinness was in the room but he made no contribution. He is giving various excuses along the road. Why did he not say anything? Did he not question the basis for this strategy, which had huge implications for Northern Ireland, at any time? He never made any...
- 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)
Peter Burke: Does Mr. McGuinness disagree with the note?
- 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)
Peter Burke: Does Mr. McGuinness disagree with the minute?