ANOTHER SINN FEIN BLACKMAIL HELD OVER ROBINSONS HEAD. ................................................................................................................. ,(HOW CAN OUR 1ST. MINISTER SIGN A CHEQUE ON HIS OWN ADMISSION FOR £200 MILLION, STATING IT WAS SIGNED ON THE BACK OF A PROFESSIONAL VALUATION, WHICH TURNS OUT TO BE LIES.) .............................................................................................................. Peter Robinson on BBC told Noel Thompson, yes i wrote the cheque, but i am not a valuer ?....................A senior official has revealed how he came up with an indicative valuation of £200m for government-owned land near Belfast that was ultimately valued at less than £6m, on 15 June 2011. A proposal was made in 2007 to sell the land at the department of agricultures testing station in Crossnacreevy to help pay for a farm nutrients scheme. The permanent secretary of the agriculture department, Gerry Lavery, told MLAs he had asked one of his staff to find out how much land with planning permission was selling for in greater Belfast. Mr Lavery was given the figure of £2.5m and said he had multiplied this by 80 acres to come up with the final figure of £200m. Government land and property services ultimately placed a value on the Crossnacreevy site at between £2.28m and £5.8m Committee members wanted to know how the £200m figure had come to feature in the executives budget at the time. Mr Lavery said it was only an indicative figure. It was never a valuation. It has never been presented as a valuation ............................................................................................................ .Taxpayers have lost millions of pounds in a land deal between two Northern Ireland government departments, an Audit Office report has revealed. The report said the Department of Finance and Personnel accepted an informal valuation of £200m on a Department of Agriculture property. The County Down property was later found to be worth as little as £2.28m.
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