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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Oct 2015)
John Deasy: It is ridiculous that the clerk cannot respond to it, although he has probably worked on it during the past week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Oct 2015)
John Deasy: We are not doing the talking. I am not sure how one can characterise the release of documents to the committee as an attempt to frustrate the committee. If people have an issue on the timing, that is fair enough. If these documents had arrived this evening, then the Chairman would have a legitimate issue. We should ask the Minister for Finance and the Department to explain their reasoning...
- Public Accounts Committee: Northern Ireland Assembly Finance Committee: Discussion on NAMA Project Eagle Sale (1 Oct 2015)
John Deasy: I thank Mr. McKay for taking the time to come to this committee meeting today. To clarify that last point, the Northern Ireland committee is asking questions and NAMA is giving written responses to those questions. There is a jurisdictional issue which is the reason NAMA has given for not appearing before the committee. Has the committee asked to meet NAMA privately?
- Public Accounts Committee: Northern Ireland Assembly Finance Committee: Discussion on NAMA Project Eagle Sale (1 Oct 2015)
John Deasy: Why not?
- Public Accounts Committee: Northern Ireland Assembly Finance Committee: Discussion on NAMA Project Eagle Sale (1 Oct 2015)
John Deasy: It just seems to be a case of all or nothing, with the committee wanting NAMA to appear before it. As Mr. McKay said, this is really about getting to the truth and finding out what happened here. Has the committee made a request to meet NAMA informally or privately to discuss these issues?
- Public Accounts Committee: Northern Ireland Assembly Finance Committee: Discussion on NAMA Project Eagle Sale (1 Oct 2015)
John Deasy: I see a contradiction here. There is some stonewalling going on with regard to NAMA but there is a good jurisdictional reason, in my opinion, for NAMA not going to Stormont and appearing before Mr. McKay's committee. If the committee has not asked NAMA to meet it informally, it should do so and perhaps NAMA would be open to that. The committee should do so, particularly if its only or...
- Public Accounts Committee: Northern Ireland Assembly Finance Committee: Discussion on NAMA Project Eagle Sale (1 Oct 2015)
John Deasy: That is fair enough.
- Public Accounts Committee: Northern Ireland Assembly Finance Committee: Discussion on NAMA Project Eagle Sale (1 Oct 2015)
John Deasy: That is fair enough. I will ask Mr. Frank Daly and Mr. Brendan McDonagh if they would deal with Mr. McKay's committee on that basis. Maybe that would be helpful.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)
John Deasy: Time-wise, could Mr. McCarthy tell us when he thinks the interim report will be finished?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)
John Deasy: The draft report will be ready by the end of this year.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)
John Deasy: I thank Mr. McCarthy.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)
John Deasy: A lot of people are saying that these days.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)
John Deasy: We are going to suspend for half an hour. We will return at approximately 1.45 p.m. Before we suspend, it might be helpful for me to suggest, in the presence of the members of the Stormont committee in the North, what I said I would suggest to Mr. Daly. I would like to know whether the committee has asked to meet Mr. Daly in private in an informal way and whether that is something he would...
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)
John Deasy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)
John Deasy: I asked-----
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)
John Deasy: Just to be clear-----
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)
John Deasy: Fair enough.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)
John Deasy: The impression is being given that NAMA is stonewalling in response to the suggestion that it should meet the finance committee. That is why I am asking this question. Will representatives of NAMA meet the committee informally? Will Mr. Daly consider that?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)
John Deasy: I thank Mr. Daly.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)
John Deasy: Fair enough.