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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) (18 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: What does Mr. McEnery think? He knows all about these things.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (18 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Then there is a blank.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (18 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Three weeks.

Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Deputy Martin did not say that

Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: What about Deputies?

Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Nobody with an ounce of common sense could claim fairness for a scenario where pensioners, older citizens and carers who save the State a fortune are meant to be thankful for being given an extra fiver a week, while, at the same time, those who hold the highest office in the land are in line for a bonanza in a pay increase. I hear the Minister's response that Ministers are voluntarily...

Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: After all the pronouncements about the universal social charge in Tuesday's budget package agreed by the Government and Fianna Fáil, a worker on €20,000 a year will benefit to the tune of €1.92 per week, while those on €30,000 a year can look forward to an increase of €2.88 per week and a person earning €45,000 a year can expect a whopping increase of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: It would be very important, even if it is in the new year, that we would afford time in our work programme to study carefully and inquire into the report that the Comptroller and Auditor General is completing.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank Mr. Rowntree for being here and giving very valuable and helpful information. The University of Ulster project was called the Ulster University Jordanstown land development model. It was not a one-off escapade by the university but a detailed, elaborate process which involved NAMA and other banks, as Mr. Rowntree set out.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: The work was financially supported, as agreed by the main board, to the value of £20,000.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Rowntree has set out how the Northern Ireland advisory committee received regular updates. It is also fair to say the main board was equally informed of the development of the work.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: The records reflect that fact.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Perhaps refreshingly in terms of most of our witnesses to date, Mr. Rowntree attaches a very high premium to evidence-based approaches.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Did the evidence available to Mr. Rowntree as a committee member, perhaps not least through the University of Ulster study, suggest there was significant scope and strategic space in respect of the assets held in Northern Ireland? I get the sense that Mr. Rowntree could see a shape or a pathway forward in the use and disposal of the assets.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: From this contribution, the committee gets some of the shape and contours of the discussions that would have taken place at the Northern Ireland advisory committee.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will come to that issue.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: In the light of this, was it wise to bundle the assets in the North and sell them in one lot? Is that the call Mr. Rowntree would have made?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am not asking Mr. Rowntree to second guess the main board.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am coming to that issue. It is the most significant point Mr. Rowntree has made today. He is not going to give me a view, as a person who had access to the study. The records reflect what he said, that he overlaid the Northern Ireland Housing Executive data. He had a deep look at the assets and what was available in the North, mindful of the concerns about fire sales. Had he been in...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Rowntree does not accept Mr. Frank Daly's description of the Northern Ireland housing committee as a talking shop.