Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Friday, 20 December 2013
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
12:40 pm
Mr. Brendan McDonagh:
Let us consider the history of the transaction. There were several shareholders in the company that owned those loans. One of the company shareholders sold his shareholding company to the Barclay brothers. That was fine. We sold a loan which had a share charge over another debtor's shareholding to a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund. Then we were approached by several parties to buy the loans associated with the debt secured on the three hotels. We sold the loans to the people who paid us the maximum amount, which was repayment of the full par debt. That was purely a business decision.
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