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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 (29 Sep 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: And NAMA's practices and policies, yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: No, it is not a description. It is an interrogation-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----of the process. It is a testing of the process.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 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 (29 Sep 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: No. He interrogates the process, then arrives at a conclusion, based on NAMA's own standards, practices and standards, which NAMA itself had set, and then benchmarks the outcome NAMA achieved. It is not against some never-never land scenario but against NAMA's own policies, standards and benchmarks.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: That claim is not in the report either.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: I will finish up now. Earlier, Mr. Daly was quite happy to benchmark some of his own remarks against those other portfolios when he was citing discount rates.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Daly was quite happy to benchmark and to use those other portfolios, Tara and Arrow, when he was citing the discount rate earlier.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: For me, Mr. Daly-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, retrospectively offered. However, I will say to Mr. Daly, for the purposes of peace, harmony and conclusive findings or observations at the tail end of this process, that for me, the distinction between the Comptroller and Auditor General's observations and account and Mr. Daly's is that everything in this document, this report, is documented - every single assertion. Whether he agrees...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: That was the implication.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Daly's friend, Mr. McEnery, seemed to imply that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Did Mr. Daly brief any journalists on this or has he been briefing against the Comptroller and Auditor General? I ask this just for clarification.
- Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: I warmly welcome the introduction of this legislation. In particular, I welcome the provision allowing for the creation of a new special speed limit of 20 km/h. Last year, I, along with Deputy Ellis, introduced the Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill, known as Jake's law. It was introduced in memory of Jake Brennan, who was knocked down outside his home in Kilkenny on 12 June 2014. Six year old...
- Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: I thought for one second that I only had one minute and nine seconds. I would have had to speak very quickly.
- Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: From listening to the debate, this path has been well trodden. We have heard all of the arguments why it is unacceptable to the majority that people should pay for domestic water supplies a second time. The Minister of State is right that nothing is free. Yes, things have to be paid for. Those of us in elected office need to identify from where the moneys will come. That is entirely...
- Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yet those on the Fianna Fáil benches pursue their policy of prevarication, delay and, ultimately, deception. I do not believe they intend to see through on their promise to abolish water charges. Those on the Government and Fianna Fáil benches need to understand that those who proposed the introduction of domestic water charges have lost the argument. I heard Deputy Barry Cowen,...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Answer the question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the witnesses and I thank Ms Patricia Devlin for her work on this matter, which was most insightful. Overall, there is some reassurance from the presentations. I wish to make a suggestion without getting into the entire HR issue. Clearly, there must be discretion and the ability to use the full toolkit. My suggestion is that matters of sanction and disclosure ought to be hardwired...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies (21 Sep 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: No, the ministerial appointments, such as special advisers and so forth.