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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (3 Oct 2023)

Cormac Devlin: 436. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to detail, in tabular form, the number of applications for international protection; the number approved; the number rejected; the number under appeal; the number awaiting processing, by month and gender, during the years 2020 to 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42256/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (3 Oct 2023)

Cormac Devlin: 520. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the status of mobility grants for people with a disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42255/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (3 Oct 2023)

Cormac Devlin: 521. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42263/23]

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

Cormac Devlin: I welcome the witnesses. It is good to engage with Mr. McDonagh again here. I thank him for his opening statement. I will start with the Comptroller and Auditor General in respect of the three-year reports. He has been involved in probably nearly all of the four reports to date. If NAMA is wound up by 2025, assuming that is the case, will there be a final report on it by the...

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

Cormac Devlin: The most revealing part of the Comptroller and Auditor General’s remarks about the report is in respect of the sale that Mr. McDonagh just spoke about. In the other four reports, has he come across a similar type of incidents in the accounts?

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

Cormac Devlin: This committee has delved into-----

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

Cormac Devlin: Absolutely, very much so. I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General for that. Turning to Mr. McDonagh and his statement on that, from the sound of it, this was not easy from the get-go - and that is probably an understatement if we knew every bit of detail to it. I refer to the receiver who resigned in May 2020. How many asset sales was that receiver who was appointed to that...

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

Cormac Devlin: From that, I presume that points to and illustrates the exceptional nature of this type of sale that NAMA was engaged in.

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

Cormac Devlin: When was the receiver initially appointed?

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

Cormac Devlin: So he had been undergoing quite a bit of work up to the point of resignation.

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

Cormac Devlin: That is not unique in the work of NAMA though, right?

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

Cormac Devlin: I understand Mr. McDonagh does not want to identify the person or persons involved. On the assets, are they located in a particular geographical area in the country or are they spread out across the country?

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

Cormac Devlin: Okay. Mr. McDonagh mentioned that the sales agent also reported that a sales agent could not be found to actually take on the portfolio, is that correct? Was that before or after the local authority declined elements of the portfolio?

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

Cormac Devlin: I presume sales agents outside of that county were sought.

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

Cormac Devlin: Through that, of the sales agents and the local authority, who exactly came under pressure and intimidation? The phrase Mr. McDonagh used was "threats and intimidation".

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

Cormac Devlin: Just the receiver.

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

Cormac Devlin: Were they reported to An Garda Síochána?

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

Cormac Devlin: What struck me was the Comptroller and Auditor General said that NAMA confirmed that it does not have a set process for dealing with incidents of alleged intimidation of its staff or agents on the basis that it is something that is very rare. "Very rare" does not mean it has not happened before. Maybe it has not happened to this level, if I am reading between the lines here. Given the fact...

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

Cormac Devlin: It still does not make NAMA immune though.

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

Cormac Devlin: Roughly, when was that?