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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Pensions Issues (15 Jan 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 948. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form, year on year, the occasions on which he has signed off on the awarding of added years to the service of public sector workers between March 2011 and December 2013; the grade of the persons awarded the added years; and the number of added years awarded in each instance. [1367/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Appointments to State Boards (15 Jan 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 949. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form, year on year, the number of commercial and non-commercial State agency board positions under the aegis of his Department that have been filled from March 2011 to December 2013; the number of these positions that were publically advertised; and the number of female appointments. [1383/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Internship Scheme Placements (15 Jan 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 950. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form, year on year, the number of JobBridge interns taken on in his Department in 2013. [1399/14]

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
NAMA - Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012 (20 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: The allegation of Mr. Moran's awkwardness in respect of these documents requested under FOI, is presumably one of the allegations contained in this dossier or file that is doing the rounds. Is that right?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
NAMA - Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012 (20 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: No, I understand that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
NAMA - Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012 (20 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: No. I thank Mr. Moran for that. The reason I am raising the FOI issue with Mr. Moran in that way is that certainly when this was aired at Leaders' Questions, the inference was that there was malpractice as regards NAMA. Those allegations, which Mr. Moran refutes, have been well rehearsed publicly. There was the allied issue of awkwardness in respect of the Department and these particular...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
NAMA - Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012 (20 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I think Mr. Moran is missing my question.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
NAMA - Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012 (20 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Does Mr. Moran think that Deputy Micheál Martin did not understand all of that or had not briefed up on FOI?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
NAMA - Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012 (20 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Moran might read it. It would make interesting reading for him.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
NAMA - Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012 (20 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I challenge Mr. McDonagh to vox pop on the streets of this town and suggest that as a proposition to anybody with an ounce of cop-on, and I will wager that the average intelligent person will have a problem with that. It raises a problem. In addition to NAMA being out of reach in terms of democratic oversight, as Mr. Daly has set out, for reasons of commercial sensitivity, there is the high...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
NAMA - Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012 (20 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: We have, but that is not the issue. That is a misrepresentation of what was proposed.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
NAMA - Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012 (20 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: We differ on this. NAMA has a fairly high level of staff turnover. That is life. Staff are entitled to move jobs and to move their lives along. I do not think anybody with an ounce of wit or cop-on could understand or justify a situation where a person who works for NAMA leaves and, with no cooling-off period, overnight can be employed and, potentially, have contacts with NAMA.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
NAMA - Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012 (20 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: How long is it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
NAMA - Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012 (20 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Which is?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
NAMA - Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012 (20 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I would remind Mr. Daly that they both went to some lengths - they have done this when they come before this committee - to outline the extraordinary nature of NAMA and the extraordinary relationship that the fate of NAMA has with the State's finances-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
NAMA - Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012 (20 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----and their arrangements therefore should reflect that extraordinary phenomenon that is NAMA. That is my view and I know Mr. Daly will not agree with me on it. I will summarise their position in respect of this dossier or file which I have not seen. Clearly, I was not one of the chosen few. Their proposition is as follows: a disgruntled Mr. Enda Farrell is the source of these...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
NAMA - Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012 (20 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Okay, Mr. Daly can relax.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
NAMA - Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012 (20 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: There is more at play here than simply the credibility and standing of NAMA. Mr. Daly's language is strong. He stated NAMA will "not be intimidated". He feels that this is an attempt at some level to intimidate NAMA or to intimidate him personally. Which is it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
NAMA - Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012 (20 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is self-evident. An accusation has been clarified here in respect of the valuation of properties, particularly with the input from the Comptroller and Auditor General. I do not understand why. To undermine NAMA's credibility and place a question mark over NAMA, that is self-evident. However, to intimidate NAMA, that is of a different order.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
NAMA - Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012 (20 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I would share that view with Mr. Daly.