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Written Answers — Department of Health: Homeless Persons Supports (27 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: 120. To ask the Minister for Health the protocols in hospitals to deal with persons who are homeless and, upon discharge, have no home to go to recuperate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32360/16]

Questions on Proposed Legislation (26 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: We are witnessing very distressing scenes from the refugee camp in Calais, sometimes referred to as the jungle. It has been home to 6,000 souls, 800 of whom are unaccompanied minors, in other words, children. There is very deep concern for everybody in that refugee camp, but particularly for children, as they are moved from Calais and dispersed to other parts of France. To our very great...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (26 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----even 200 of these child refugees so they can find sanctuary and a future here in our State?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: The matter merits separate consideration, not least because it is the first occasion on which we have had visibility of the issue. The Chairman has made the wise suggestion that we write to the HSE seeking further information. Somewhere on our programme of work we need to give a dedicated focus to this issue that has not been without public controversy.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: It means that the witnesses may have to return at some stage also.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I welcome all of the witnesses. Unlike Deputy Catherine Connolly, I do, in fact, have the contemporaneous notes of the conversations in front of me. At a previous hearing of the committee, Mr. Alan Stewart's boss, Ms Aideen O'Reilly-----

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----informed the committee that contact had been made with NAMA by PIMCO in reporting concerns under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. As somebody who was party to some, although not all, of the telephone calls in question, did PIMCO seek the acquiescence of NAMA to the fee arrangement in question?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will come to that matter in due course. With no disrespect to Mr. Stewart, that is not what I asked. Would he be surprised if I were to say to him-----

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: One would be surprised then that the minutes of the board meetings on 13 March, which were signed off on by the NAMA board, state PIMCO had sought NAMA's acquiescence, namely, to the fee arrangement.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am trying to establish that, as somebody who was party to some of the telephone calls, this certainly was not part of Mr. Stewart's impression.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Board minutes of the meeting on 11 March, two days previously, recorded the following sentiment:PIMCO, ostensibly in the spirit of transparency, wish to advise NAMA about the success fee arrangement and sought NAMA's agreement that it was appropriate. The word "ostensibly" is used in minutes of the board meeting, which it seems is questioning the motivation of PIMCO which, it should be borne...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Stewart had been writing a record in his contemporaneous notes and I do not see any such doubt cast on the motives of PIMCO.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Of course, but Mr. Stewart's boss told us that it was about the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act that it had contacted NAMA.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: In previous testimony Ms O'Reilly cited it.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: On the far end of the line PIMCO had Mr. Tom Rice, European legal counsel, and Mr. Hugh Mildred, legal counsel. There was a third party to the conversation on 10 March, Dechert, Neil Gerrard, partner. Why was Dechert party to the conversation?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: It was Mr. Stewart and Mr. Ronnie Hanna on 10 March.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: At no stage in the records - this is reflected in Appendix E of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report - does NAMA state to PIMCO the position is untenable and that one must exit from the proces.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wanted to receive clarification because there has been some controversy about whether PIMCO walked or was exited. Mr. Stewart will be aware that the position of his board, chairman and chief executive officer - it seems it was not based on anything - was that PIMCO had been forcibly exited, but that is not borne out by the records.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: In respect of the telephone call on 11 March, with Mr. Stewart and Mr. Ronnie Hanna from the NAMA side, from the notes I note that Mr. Hanna asked the question of "when PIMCO had become aware of the issue," the issue being the success fees or the fixer's fees. Mr. Tom Rice, European legal counsel for PIMCO, responded by saying, "the [Project Eagle] process had been with NAMA for several...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (25 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: What notes elsewhere?