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Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (9 Jul 2015)

Shane Ross: What use would he have been to PIMCO then?

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (9 Jul 2015)

Shane Ross: How much of the £15 million was he getting?

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (9 Jul 2015)

Shane Ross: So Mr. Daly thinks he was going to get £5 million. They were not paying that for a guy without any knowledge of what he was doing, were they?

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (9 Jul 2015)

Shane Ross: What were they paying him £5 million for?

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (9 Jul 2015)

Shane Ross: They would not pay it to Mr. Daly or me. Well, they might pay it to Mr. Daly, but not to me.

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (9 Jul 2015)

Shane Ross: It is mind boggling that they would go and ask a guy to act for them and pay him an acquisition fee of £5 million if he was just an ordinary Joe Soap off the street who did not know anything about the property portfolio. He had an office-----

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (9 Jul 2015)

Shane Ross: Mr. Cushnahan had an office in Tughans, did he not?

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (9 Jul 2015)

Shane Ross: Did that worry Mr. Daly?

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (9 Jul 2015)

Shane Ross: But Mr. Daly knew that he had an office in Tughans at the time that the bidding was going on.

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (9 Jul 2015)

Shane Ross: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (9 Jul 2015)

Shane Ross: Did that not set alarm bells ringing again?

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (9 Jul 2015)

Shane Ross: Yes, but there was a link.

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (9 Jul 2015)

Shane Ross: That was during the bidding process. The bidding process was under way when you heard about it.

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (9 Jul 2015)

Shane Ross: That is what I am trying to say.

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (9 Jul 2015)

Shane Ross: I know. I am not saying that NAMA acted dishonourably, I am saying that that was just another factor which should have made Mr. Daly realise that the whole process was flawed, that there was something wrong at every turn and something suspicious going on. At that stage I would have thought that Mr. Daly might have been worried about the price that NAMA was getting at the end because there...

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (9 Jul 2015)

Shane Ross: Let me ask this question. There were millions sloshing around the system. There was £15 million, one guy getting £5 million, there were all sorts of potential conflicts of interest happening here, there were political sensitivities, yet NAMA ploughed ahead and said, "Okay, we will take the Cerberus bid."

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (9 Jul 2015)

Shane Ross: 106. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider including rental income derived from AirBnB rentals under the rent-a-room relief, as opposed to it being subject to income tax, as is presently the case; if he considers there is an unfair distinction between sources of rental income; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28023/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Funding (8 Jul 2015)

Shane Ross: 230. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider increasing the level of funding under the housing adaptation grant for people living with a disability to complete all 106 houses on the waiting list of Cork City Council for works to adapt their homes at an approximate cost of €4.3 million; if he is aware that all 106 houses are in urgent need...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (7 Jul 2015)

Shane Ross: 372. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who have undergone the assessment of need under the Disability Act 2005 since its implementation; the number of these children who now receive one to one treatment as opposed to group sessions from the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27401/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review (7 Jul 2015)

Shane Ross: 390. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 678 of 26 May 2015, if he is considering a review of the fair deal scheme to create a distinction between the elderly infirm who are in need of nursing care, and the chronic sick who may be under 65 years of age on admission to a nursing home, as a result of insufficient supports in the community, and whose condition...