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Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: Was that one independent evaluation? Sorry, I missed that earlier. Were there two or three?

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: One was the local authority.

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: Had NAMA furnished them with information that the local authority had already made an offer of €265,000?

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: Did they base it on that?

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: However, NAMA gave them that information.

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: They knew that figure. My colleague requested information on how it was presented to the board in the minutes and the complaints to the Garda. I do not know if Mr. McDonagh confirmed he would furnish the committee with that information.

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: However, the deal is done so-----

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: If we can be furnished with as much of the information my colleague requested as possible, that would be very useful. I wish to ask about Project Jewel. What was the par value of the total Project Jewel package, the Hammerson deal?

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: It is a fairly sizeable package. I thought Mr. McDonagh would have it on the tip of his tongue.

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: I am simply looking for the par value of the total package. What was it sold for? What was the discount given? I ask Mr. McDonagh to furnish us with that information. Mr. McDonagh will be aware of the Moore Street campaign and the good people involved in that campaign - James Connolly's great-grandson for one. Was it the case that the investor was not interested in buying the ILAC...

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: Did NAMA ever ask them to take Moore Street out of the package? Did Mr. McDonagh ever meet with the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to discuss it? He would have been fully aware of this campaign for a cultural quarter.

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: Is Mr. McDonagh aware that Hammerson initiated a judicial review in January of this year?

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: Could NAMA have, at any stage, removed Moore Street, given the significance of the site? As Mr. McDonagh said, it included Dundrum Town Centre and Swords Pavilions. It was a massive area. Could NAMA have removed that from the package and still proceeded with the sale?

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: Did they ask you to remove it from the package?

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: They did not.

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: Yes, it is just-----

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: Just a moment. It is hard to credit. You go round to any city in Europe and history and cultural quarters are preserved for generations to come, and for tourism. With such a site, you did not state to me here that the buyer insisted that Moore Street be in it. It could easily have been removed, because the rest of the site was massive. You did not make any attempt to protect the site as...

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: -----or to remove it from the package altogether.

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: Hammersons already have a judicial review going on to demolish the site. That could have been prevented had it been removed initially. I often think about being able to do something to preserve a site like that and doing your utmost to make sure it is preserved. That is particularly the case with NAMA, which was tasked with selling off sites. You could have done that. That would be some...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Television Licence Fee (27 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: 85. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to the report of the Commission on the Future of Media, which identified the taxpayer contribution to public service media in 2020 as being €106 million, comprised of funding for free TV licences under the household benefits package worth €69.8 million and direct funding to TG4 worth €37.2 million, if...