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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) (25 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: I was looking at other ones. They are fairly class names: Saturn, Quattro, Aspen, Chrome, Holly. Maybe the latter was around Christmas time, was it? No, it was quarter one of 2014.
- 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 somebody with a good imaginative capacity.
- 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: They cite all of these, and that is fine. Let us take Quattro. This particular transaction, with a par value of $200, was a collection of hotels located along the east coast of the United States. It is based on asset location. I understand investors moving, and a rationale for all of that, but it strikes me as singular of Brown Rudnick, not to make an approach to NAMA which is fair...
- 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: No, it was more than that. It was not about where are the assets. If they were-----
- 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: Hang on. If they were looking at the North and saying, "Well, this has bottomed out. They are in trouble there. They only way is up.", I can understand viewing the assets in that location, but that is not what happened. They were quite specific that it was about the debtors.
- 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: Let me cut to the chase here because maybe Mr. Collison is politely side-stepping what I am thinking. It strikes me in this singular focus on the debtors in the North that it would have been in the interests of persons with connections with those debtors in the North perhaps to have had them bundled up and acquired by an appropriate entity. It strikes me as odd when one considers that Mr....
- 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: We may need their help.
- 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 not disputing that but I am also thinking out loud. Somebody referred to that earlier, that it also would have been a neat vehicle for those debtors who wanted out from under NAMA. Would it not?
- 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 merely highlighting that it strikes me so.
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (20 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: I ask about the help to buy scheme, which is part of the finance Bill to be published today. The scheme, which will provide a rebate of income tax over the four previous years up to 5% of the purchase price of new build homes, is a deeply flawed and dangerous scheme. Before the Government pressed ahead with the launch of this scheme last week, the overwhelming majority of expert opinion...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister has not answered my question.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister might raise his concerns regarding welfare recipients in the North with the Tory Government. He might also raise the issue of partition. That would be a helpful thing if his concerns are genuine. I am fully conversant with the facts in this scenario. It is the Minister who turns his head away from the very simple fact that the proposed increases for Deputies, Ministers, the...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: I know, and the Minister should know, that there is no public tolerance at this time, when a fiver is given to pensioners amidst great fanfare and €2.70 is afforded to young people out of work, for so-called political leaders having the brass iron neck to suggest our generous salaries and the Minister's generous salary should be hiked up again.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: If the Government is not prepared to legislate on this matter, will the Minister, his ministerial colleagues and others, including on the Fianna Fáil and Labour Party benches, support the Sinn Féin motion?
- Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister's colleagues in government have consistently refused to tackle and put a stop to the outrageous proposed increases in politicians' pay. He will agree with me that we are all well paid. Deputies earn a basic salary of €87,258. It is a wage that many workers would envy. Indeed, it is a wage that the majority of workers will never earn. Of course, the Minister and his...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: At a time when €5 is the best that the Minister can do for pensioners and many private sector workers, politicians cannot and must not get special treatment. We need to put a stop to this. That is what citizens wish to see. That is the fair thing to do. Will the Minister give a commitment that the Government will act properly and legislate to stop unjust pay increases for political...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (19 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: We need to hear this.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (19 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: No, there is joint responsibility.
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (19 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Hear, hear.
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (19 Oct 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: That was a helpful observation.