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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) (17 Nov 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Could we find out? The bit that astonishes me, which has remained the position of Cerberus and NAMA, is that NAMA had no notion of Brown Rudnick being involved with Cerberus until 2 April. The witness may keep me right on those dates. In other words, the agency did not know Brown Rudnick had any involvement with Cerberus until the bid was in. To put it one way, I am a bit sceptical of that.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will the witness find out who organised that meeting and if it was Brown Rudnick, Tughans or somebody acting on their behalf, given that it is what Cerberus was paying them for? It could be useful for the examination of this committee.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: He is the single only person to have raised it.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: We are on the final lap.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have two issues. First, are there any other matters that came to Mr. Neporent's attention in preparation for this meeting that he has not placed on the record? I would have expected Mr. Neportent, if he does not mind me saying, to have stated it in his opening statement merely to give us the benefit of the information that there had been a technical violation of the non-disclosure...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Second, could Mr. Neporent give us a sense of his interactions and relationship with Lazard in the course of this transaction?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Was Mr. Neporent's interaction with Lazard different in this transaction than in previous transactions?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Was it more truncated, more intense?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Did Mr. Neporent know that Lazard had a different kind of role in respect of dealing with this portfolio as against other property or loan sales advisers? Did he have no sense that this was very much a bespoke situation?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am just asking whether Mr. Neporent had a sense of that, no?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I accept that. Did Mr. Neporent have a conversation with anyone from Lazard at any stage in respect of PIMCO and its withdrawal?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Did Lazard never bring that to Mr. Neporent's attention or make a commentary on it?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Compliance (17 Nov 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: 76. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of his Department’s ongoing engagements with Dublin City Council residents and other interested parties in Longboat Quay Dublin; and the steps being taken by the relevant authorities to deal with the outstanding building regulations and fire compliance issues at that site. [35443/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Standards (17 Nov 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: 94. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on the national oversight and audit commission report on rented house inspections published in October 2016 and, in particular, on the findings in the report of the low inspection levels in many local authorities, the 55% non-compliance rate in properties inspected and the €1.3 million shortfall in...

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)

Mary Lou McDonald: Fáilte arís, deputy First Minister and Mr. Mullen. I have a question for the Comptroller and Auditor General. At any point is the deputy First Minister, Mr. Martin McGuinness, referenced in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report?

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)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank Mr. McCarthy for the clarification. What is the deputy First Minister's role in 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)

Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. McGuinness met them on that occasion. What is his oversight role in NAMA, its operation or any of its transactions?

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)

Mary Lou McDonald: Would it be fair to say the relationship between NAMA and the Executive, specifically the Offices of the First Minister and deputy First Minister, was one based essentially on political courtesy or political sensitivities?

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)

Mary Lou McDonald: Okay. With regard to the Ministers in the respective jurisdictions, North and South, it would be fair to say it was slightly different.

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)

Mary Lou McDonald: Okay. Mr. McGuinness has placed on the record that neither he nor the Executive had any involvement in the appointments of Mr. Rowntree or Mr. Cushnahan, and in any event he would not have had a concern with those individuals-----