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Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: ...easy for us to be put off by Mr. McDonagh telling us it will cost millions of euro but Deputy Fleming is looking for that type of general analysis that will give us some idea of what happened, what NAMA took over, the gain or loss, and what each institution looks like at the end of the process. Perhaps he would consider it and come back to us.

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: Mr. Daly has confirmed that NAMA will have to pay out more by the end of the year.

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: If NAMA is prepared to publish it, then it can let us have it. Does Mr. McDonagh have a list of the offers for housing there? If so, we will copy it and give it to members. I am anxious to see the full list.

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: ...Museum and its report. I can go through the questions if the witnesses wish, or give them a copy, but if possible I would like to get replies to some of them. Did the group ask to meet with NAMA?

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: Did NAMA meet with them?

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: ...while. Without going again into the allegations that were made by Deputy Mick Wallace in the Dáil, I listened to what the witnesses had to say. When the allegations were made in the House, did NAMA consider contacting Deputy Wallace to say it had the answers to all of that and that he should go and talk to NAMA, or did it take each of the allegations and write to Deputy Wallace...

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: Deputy Perry raised the issue earlier of damage to NAMA and its reputation. I fully understand that, but I also understand that when Members of the House get queries or are told things, some of us will act responsibly and check them out and perhaps raise them afterwards, but every man and woman has his or her own way of doing business. Deputy Wallace has done it this way, and although he...

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: Okay. These are just small issues but NAMA does not talk about the statements of Johnny Ronan and Michael O'Flynn because it has been before the committee of inquiry. Is that it? I am just taking it from-----

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: So NAMA cannot do that, no?

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: On the Northern Ireland committee, I acknowledge NAMA has answered the various questions, but is its non-appearance there because it is outside the jurisdiction?

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: ...and so on. It was a worthwhile exercise for this committee and it showed how the two different jurisdictions can function well in the interests of the taxpayer. I am of the view that I believe NAMA's representatives should attend the Northern committee. The witnesses have heard that echoed around this meeting room today and I encourage NAMA to reconsider its position. I do not see what...

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: In Mr. McDonagh's opening statement, he mentions houses and how NAMA is supporting 6,500 jobs directly. Is it the case that NAMA is now a development company in terms of seeking planning permissions and building houses?

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: NAMA had written to Deputy Wallace after the first set of allegations was made-----

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: -----and NAMA gave its rebuttal.

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: ...by some members and certainly by me that there was a point in that process when it should have been abandoned. That is my view - I am just saying that. In terms of constituencies and who NAMA addresses, it may not have lost the confidence of the investment community - I hope it does not - but there is another constituency which engages with us here, namely, the people. In some cases,...

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: Correspondence that I see coming to the Committee of Public Accounts - there is not a big volume of it - expresses frustration in dealing with NAMA. Some is from clients with properties in NAMA and some from individuals who just do not know where to turn. Then there are those community groups, or at least that one group that I met this morning. That is echoed around the country. I ask Mr....

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: ...me. I will come back to this every time you appear before the committee because it relates to the citizen and the right to get information, even though that person might be under pressure through NAMA or through a bank. The fact that they write to us is, in itself, an indication of the frustration they feel in dealing with the organisation.

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: -----that I believe you should be more up-front with some of the people who deal with NAMA, and that is not the case. There are examples that come before this committee. Individuals are trying to get their lives back after the devastation since 2007 and they experience this frustration. An agency of the State should give more time, or as much time, to those individuals as it might give to...

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014 (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: ...in the responses you and Mr. McDonagh give, when all we are trying to do here, sometimes from an uninformed or poorly informed position, is to extract information on what you are doing within NAMA on an issue. I can give examples as they are available. All I am asking you to do is to acknowledge some of these and look at the way you process them. They might not get what they want, but...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2015)

John McGuinness: ...dated 15 July 2015, received from the HSE. It is a follow-up to our meeting on 23 April 2015 and is to be noted and published. Item No. 3A.4 is correspondence dated 20 July 2015, received from NAMA. It is a follow-up from our meeting of 9 July 2015 and is to be noted and published. We can deal with this issue next week. No. 3A.5 is correspondence dated 20 July 2015, received from...