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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Am I correct in saying his firm, RSM McClure Watters, was a member of a NAMA advisory panel?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I know that. It was on a consultancy panel.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Did it ever procure work from NAMA?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is Mr. Daly aware that Mr. Watters claims responsibility for the decision for coming up with the initiative to bundle those properties? Mr. Watters did not refer to it as Project Eagle. It was referred to as "Project Amani", when it was first conceived.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Might it be an idea to correspond with this gentleman to establish the veracity of his claims? He is fairly firm in his view. He wrote to Tughans, the solicitors' firm that we have discussed long and hard, which was involved in the initial Pimco debacle and then, subsequently, in the Cerberus debacle, and he is quite firmly of the view that he did considerable work, and had involved Mr....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I know, but it gets curiouser and curiouser.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Watters says that he involved Mr. Cushnahan, who was very much part of NAMA at the time, to work on the concept. It was called Project Amani. They then approached Mr. Ian Coulter - another name familiar to Mr. Daly - of Tughans who, in turn, approached Brown Rudnick - a man by the name of Mr. Tuvi Keinan who is also known to Mr. Daly. This gentleman then came up with the two names,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is correct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: With that in mind, when Mr. Daly appeared before the Committee of Public Accounts his line of argument in respect of Project Eagle was that if there are difficulties and allegations, they all reside on the side of the purchaser. Mr. Daly said NAMA had a clean bill of health.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I take that correction. It is the purchase side. Of course, it subsequently emerged that Mr. Cushnahan, in addition to all of the other controversies surrounding him, had, in fact, had a meeting with PIMCO, the original bidder, while still engaged by NAMA. I know Mr. Daly wrote to Mr. Cushnahan on 19 November 2015 because I have a copy of the letter in front of me. Has he had a response...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is, as a matter of fact. What is the topic?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am discussing a piece of correspondence.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: There is no call for that. We are here to discuss NAMA. This is a matter that goes to the heart of the governance of NAMA, which I understood was the topic under discussion. When this transaction occurred it was the single large transaction overseen by NAMA, and it has been riddled with controversy and question marks. I believe it was a corrupted process from the get-go. I have discussed...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is moving into the realm of the farcical. The issues and the names of the individuals concerned are in broad public circulation, and there has been correspondence and hearings here and in the North in which these names have been well ventilated, so I do not accept that position. I really hope the Vice Chairman is not trying to disrupt my line of questioning with this witness.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Thank you.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Thank you; I heard you the first time. That is very kind of you.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: I remind Mr. Daly that he is answering questions to me and not to the Vice Chairman.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Daly-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Daly-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of NAMA: Discussion (16 Dec 2015)
Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Daly, you had to-----