Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Okay. It then gets very interesting. That happened on 7 October. The board met on 10 October, approved it and said it was going to examine the proposal. By early December, the indicative offer from PIMCO was on the table and by late December moving into early January, there was approval to dispose of the thing so it happened very quickly. Maybe that is the way these things happen. I quoted from the minutes of the board meeting on 7 October. Mr. Rowntree met the board again on 9 December.