Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That is the nub of the issue, but how long could it hold them? Surely if the State had so much debt on its balance sheet, it had to get sales through and show that the banking system and the property market were getting back to some normality. Essentially that is what NAMA was there to do. That would be a fair point.