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Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I understand the process perfectly.

Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday evening, we received the long-awaited report of the commission on the future of water charges. I welcome aspects of the report, particularly the call for constitutional protection to keep our water services in public ownership. Sinn Féin has long argued for that. I also welcome the commission's recognition that the best way to pay for general domestic water usage is through...

Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I welcome and share the very strong view the Taoiseach has expressed of adherence to the Good Friday Agreement. That progress came after a very protracted and vicious conflict and it was hard-won on all sides. The Taoiseach is aware that this internationally-binding agreement recognises the Border as a contested border and that the matter is contemplated within it. The agreement also makes...

Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I noted with interest the report in Friday's The Irish Timesthat the Taoiseach told a Fine Gael fundraising event that the outcome of the Brexit referendum could result in a united Ireland. The Taoiseach will not be surprised to hear that I welcome these comments if true. The First Minister of Scotland, Ms Nicola Sturgeon, spoke in the Seanad earlier today. She has been very clear on her...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Chairman, it is contemptuous to treat the committee in this way. Sadly, it seems to be part of NAMA's pattern. We can put that to them. We certainly need time to study the statements, but I think the representatives from NAMA need to understand that as a consequence of their approach this will not be their final appearance before the committee. There is no doubt in my mind that we will...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is the reality.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: We will need to do that but could I just note at this point that Mr. Robinson has the opportunity to come before the committee to have his evidence tested. That is the distinction, if you do not mind me saying, Chairman, just as the Deputy First Minister availed of.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Record 3, yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: If the Deputy does not mind, this is not a question to the witness but concerns the issue raised by Deputy Madigan. So that we are clear, we have contemporaneous notes of a conference call on 10 March that are exactly the same as the contemporaneous record of 11 March. One is 4 p.m.-----

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am not sure that we are. It is clear to me that we actually do not have the contemporaneous notes from 10 March. Will NAMA get them and provide them to us? I am not referring to an e-mail. I am referring to the contemporaneous notes - accurate ones.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: There will be leniency then.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Let us just see how we get on.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: If he does not mind, perhaps Mr. Coleman would swap seats with Mr. Stewart. Could Mr. Daly tell the committee when he realised or knew that Brown Rudnick had brought this proposition on the Northern loan portfolio to PIMCO? When did that come to his attention?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Could Mr. Daly co-operate with me? I will allow him to come back to that point because I am very anxious to her his answers but I am leading the questioning.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: In March then Mr. Daly discovered that Brown Rudnick had prompted-----

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: No, I am not asking that.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is correct.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Let me be more explicit and let us not confuse ourselves or people who may be watching the proceedings. The narrative thus far for NAMA has been that an approach was made by PIMCO. A reverse approach was made through Brown Rudnick in respect of the Project Eagle portfolio. When we had a conversation about that at one stage I said it was interesting. I wondered how it had occurred to PIMCO...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: What I want to know is whether Mr. Daly knew all along that was the sequence of events, that in other words, Brown Rudnick was the initiator of the deal?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: No, at what stage - when, what date and what month - did Mr. Daly realise or did it come to his attention that Brown Rudnick was the initiator of the deal?