Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 25 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. John Collison:
Could I just make one point on that? If I could point Deputy McDonald to page 133 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report, there is a paragraph that begins, "In terms of rationale,". The last two sentences there read:
PIMCO believe the Portfolio would provide them with quantum quickly and overall they like the value proposition. PIMCO would very much see this as a "bolt-on" acquisition believing that the secondary markets offer good opportunities for incremental capex to drive value.
That does set out the rationale. They took a view on the Northern Ireland market. They also knew that in the portfolio there was a strong concentration on retail assets. They operated in the UK market. They had a fix and a good focus on retail. There was commercial logic behind their investment strategy here.
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