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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Appointments to State Boards (15 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: 631. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the action he will take in relation to an appointment of a person (details supplied); when he will take action; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34484/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Agencies Staff Recruitment (15 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: 685. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason Fáilte Ireland has refused to advertise and fill the head-of-marketing job internally; the reason this is now being contracted to a private company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35143/16]

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: I will be very short.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: I will be two minutes.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: I will be brief because most questions have been asked. I apologise, as I was at the health committee this morning with the Minister, Deputy Harris. Regarding the documentation that has subsequently been provided to the committee, had Mr. McCarthy been unaware of any of it and was he surprised by any of it? Would it have made a material difference to the report?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: I just wanted to ask. There has been a debate on the valuation of the assets. NAMA has gone through this matter in detail. Is there any validity in NAMA's argument that, in light of the information that it has provided to us, including on asset locations, the assets would have deteriorated in value over time if NAMA had not got rid of them quickly?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: The main issue for me is the process. We have gone through it in detail. Regarding Mr. McCarthy's report, I feel from some of his responses today that he is hardening even further his position on this process. Of particular relevance is the fact that NAMA states that a number of other potential bidders were offered the opportunity but that this was effectively not the case at all. In many...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: It was a combination of all the evidence across the board.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: I have one last comment. I will be brief. Point 10 in Mr. McCarthy's summary is a point to which I have consistently referred. During all the questioning, it has come across to me that there is an unwritten or undefined aspect to this, that is, that there were four components, to which Mr. McCarthy has made reference, to the making of this decision which, through this process, I believe we...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: I understand that.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: I think we will.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: I welcome the witnesses and I am glad to be here today. As the Minister knows, the Committee on Public Accounts sits at the same time as this committee and I rarely get to come here. I missed having the privilege of asking him questions approximately a month ago so I am glad to be here. Who is running health care in this country at this moment in time? We must learn something from this....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: Good. My colleagues have asked questions about nursing. We are facing into strikes in several months time. That is guaranteed unless the Minister can do something about it. I listened to the answers he gave earlier. I admire his energy and respect his capacity, but he cannot be all things to all people and he should not try to be. He will have to be imaginative to solve the issue. On...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: It is not a show trial, so the Minister is all right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: I do not get to attend most of the meetings of this committee. I think this is just the second meeting I have attended. I cannot be in two places at the same time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: That is all factual.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: It does not deal with what is facing us.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: There was no more money available to the Department of Justice and Equality either.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: Is there not a built-in contingency in this regard every year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: If the State Claims Agency is left out and indexed separately, is the Minister confident that he-----