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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) (17 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: It was all concluded pretty quickly.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: Did the board think it appropriate to reassess it at any time during the process?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: I am interested in establishing fact and I am interested in establishing the opinion of Mr. McGuinness on a number issues. Deputy Peter Burke raised the issue of the phone call and this is new information to us. There is a contribution from Mr. McGuinness in this phone call that is not recorded in the minute. Was he not concerned that it was not recorded? Can he send this committee an...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: And with hindsight?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: We are now giving Mr. McGuinness an opportunity to put an addendum on the record that will disclose his contribution.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: Returning to the deal that subsequently went through, either Northern Ireland was going to gain or the Republic of Ireland was going to lose. Does Mr. McGuinness believe that, given the outcome, in order for the Northern Ireland economy to be protected, the Republic of Ireland taxpayer had to lose?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: I am not, I am just asking for Mr. McGuinness's opinion.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: I will come at it from another angle.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: I am not at that level yet. Mr. McGuinness has been always perceived as a hands-on person. He has outlined the political dynamic of the time and the argument he had with the First Minister on the peace conference and other things. That is the context and we welcome that as it is not something of which we would have been aware. There are always dynamics in politics - believe me, I have...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: Has Mr. McGuinness read the document?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: If this, or a version of it, went through, would it be legal?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: I did not ask that. I asked if Mr. McGuinness thinks it would have been legal.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: There are fundamental issues relating to commitments to using Northern Ireland contractors, tendering and other things and I am shocked that this was not brought to Mr. McGuinness's attention. I am also shocked that a senior, experienced and well-qualified adviser would not have said that something must have been happening, given the request for all personal guarantees and security to be...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: I accept that.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: I was referring to Mr. McGuinness's office and his advisers.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: Mr. McGuinness does represent Sinn Féin.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: To be fair, I have only a certain amount of time.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: I am not speaking on behalf of the committee but I accept that and have moved on so Mr. McGuinness does not need to say it another three or four times to everyone else on the committee. I think we accept that he was not at those meetings. The point we are driving at is whether there was almost a wishful ignorance about what was happening because that is what is coming across today. That...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: I am not political pointscoring.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: It is the other way around.