Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That's not the case that's being put to you, Mr. Ahearne, with all due respect. The case is that NAMA's structure meant that they had to sell on these loans. They had to sell on these assets within a certain period of time and that was being done at a time when the property prices were either at rock bottom or just starting to recover, whereas if the structure of NAMA were allowed to hold on to the loans for a longer period of time, then you would actually receive greater amounts of money and be able to pay back the taxpayer a lot more.