Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 17 November 2016
Public Accounts Committee
Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed)
9:00 am
Mr. Mark Neporent:
The Northern Irish Executive and people in the Republic. It was all in the context, as I said in my opening remarks, of us being concerned that in making an investment of this size in a place where we had never made an investment before, we wanted to be certain that, one, we were welcome by those stakeholders, and, two, to make sure in the context of the bid that we understood what the issues were and through those contacts we understood the facts such as the concern about a fire sale, being a long-term investor and questions that came up about how guarantees would be handled. We gleaned all of that information through-----
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