Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 18 October 2016
Public Accounts Committee
Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed)
10:00 am
Mr. Oliver Ellingham:
It is important to state for the record that the term "fire sale" as applied to assets is one that I would describe as a very distressed sale. We very firmly refute the fact that Project Eagle was a fire sale. A fire sale would have been down at £1 billion which would have involved a very substantial discount. In our view, £1.3 billion was the normal discount for a group of assets of this size, rather than a fire sale.
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