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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) (10 Nov 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is important that we have clarity on that. Is Ms Nolan still contesting the Comptroller and Auditor General's position or does she still harbour those worries in respect of the discount rate?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am assuming Ms Reid has read 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) (10 Nov 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: So she will be aware that that is not the contention of the Comptroller and Auditor General.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: I do not wish to be rude to Ms Nolan. I am sure she is an accomplished and committed public servant but when I hear the officials of the Department before this committee, and not least today, I hear waffle. It pains me to say that. Ms Nolan was listening to the proceedings earlier and the Comptroller and Auditor General made clear that it is not a quibble over accountancy treatment but a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: What I cannot understand is why, as a witness before this committee, Ms Nolan lapses into a tour of the world when we are talking about the specifics of Project Eagle. I need clear-cut answers from Ms Nolan at this stage in terms of her acceptance or otherwise of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report and matters associated with it, as well as answers in terms of the kind of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Sorry, Ms Nolan, but is it a matter of absolute coincidence that that is precisely the position taken by NAMA? Is that purely coincidental?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is not the finding of the Comptroller and Auditor General.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, and I want to make it clear that the Comptroller and Auditor General does not disagree with Ms Nolan on that point.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: I will finish on this point. This is why that worries me, and I say this with the greatest respect to Ms Nolan. She tells us now that she has no idea what the appropriate discount rate should be or might have been. That was the sentence out of her mouth.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yet on 6 October she came before this committee and made an issue of the use of the 5% discount rate. That is incoherent, and I am not sure what it adds to our unravelling of all of these matters.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: I do not know if that is deliberate or accidental but I hear Ms Nolan very much taking an identical analysis to NAMA and perhaps that is okay. Perhaps she has just arrived at the same conclusions.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Absolutely, yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Why is Ms Nolan repeating that? That has not been said.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is it wise to be concerned about issues that have not been raised? That is-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Does Mr. Reid still hold that view?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Does Mr. Reid share those concerns? I think that is the question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: There was. Maybe the Department did not like it. That is incorrect.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: I have one very short question for Mr. Reid following on from his thought that the Comptroller and Auditor General might benefit from additional advice. Has he ever advised NAMA that it should seek external or additional advice? Did he do so in respect of the sale of Project Eagle because-----