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- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2016 and 2017
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 102: National Asset Management Agency Second Progress Report (20 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: This sale crystalises an approach and a mindset of whether we really understood what was going on in the market, the housing crisis and how it can be resolved. Many would argue that socially it would have been much better had the properties been sold to individuals rather than selling them on to an entity that would become a huge private landlord which would make money on the back of people....
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2016 and 2017
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 102: National Asset Management Agency Second Progress Report (20 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: That is fine, but it does not address the point I made. I know that people were living in them. The point is that they were sold and the matter of who purchases them has an impact on the overall housing situation.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2016 and 2017
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 102: National Asset Management Agency Second Progress Report (20 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: NAMA has choices.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2016 and 2017
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 102: National Asset Management Agency Second Progress Report (20 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: I appreciate NAMA's remit, its role and that it has a job to do. However, there was an intervention by the State. Ministers were very clear that NAMA needed to play a part in addressing the overall housing crisis and looking at where the market was at and playing a role in that. There are choices. It was not all about getting a profit or what might be the best price. Part of it then had...
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2016 and 2017
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 102: National Asset Management Agency Second Progress Report (20 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: I have one final question. What is project Nantes? Who names all these projects?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2016 and 2017
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 102: National Asset Management Agency Second Progress Report (20 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: What was the par value of those loans at the time?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2016 and 2017
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 102: National Asset Management Agency Second Progress Report (20 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: What was the par value of the loans in that project?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2016 and 2017
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 102: National Asset Management Agency Second Progress Report (20 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: How does confidentiality apply?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2016 and 2017
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 102: National Asset Management Agency Second Progress Report (20 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: I would like more clarification as to why. We got answers about other loan sales and projects. What is the issue with getting answers on this one?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2016 and 2017
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 102: National Asset Management Agency Second Progress Report (20 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: I am asking questions about value, what it was sold for and whether it was an off-market transaction. Those are process questions and systems questions.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2016 and 2017
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 102: National Asset Management Agency Second Progress Report (20 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: Did any conflict of interest issues arise from that transaction?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2016 and 2017
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 102: National Asset Management Agency Second Progress Report (20 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: Conflicts of interest can happen. If there are any conflicts of interest in a sale, they are declared. Conflicts of interest can be anything. Were any conflicts of interest at all brought to Mr. McDonagh's attention in this regard?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2016 and 2017
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 102: National Asset Management Agency Second Progress Report (20 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: I know. I am asking whether, to Mr. McDonagh's knowledge, declarations of any conflicts interests were made concerning any element of that sale.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2016 and 2017
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 102: National Asset Management Agency Second Progress Report (20 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: A statutory declaration was made, which is standard under section 172.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2016 and 2017
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 102: National Asset Management Agency Second Progress Report (20 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: Did that involve any declared conflicts of interest?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2016 and 2017
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 102: National Asset Management Agency Second Progress Report (20 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: Some commentary held that for that loan sale NAMA waived a requirement that the purchaser must not be connected to a relevant debtor.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2016 and 2017
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 102: National Asset Management Agency Second Progress Report (20 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: That is not true?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2016 and 2017
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 102: National Asset Management Agency Second Progress Report (20 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: I think the rest of us should have the opportunity to say that Deputy MacSharry speaks for himself.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2016 and 2017
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 102: National Asset Management Agency Second Progress Report (20 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: A number of accusations have been made about a number of Accounting Officers and they are well able to defend themselves, but I would not want the perception to be that Deputy MacSharry's opinion is one shared by all members. To be fair to them, the witnesses are brought before the committee to deal with certain issues. I do not have a difficulty in Mr. Carville answering the question...
- Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2016 and 2017
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 102: National Asset Management Agency Second Progress Report (20 Sep 2018) David Cullinane: No, we do not.