Mr. Brendan McDonagh:

Lots of people are trying to buy assets in Ireland. My job is to make sure I keep people interested in buying assets off NAMA. If people who have lots of money are interested in buying assets and want to meet someone in NAMA our policy is to meet them, but we were very clear with Fortress and Cerberus that they could come to meet us and talk to us about the weather or anything else but we would not discuss the bids.