Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 30 September 2021
Public Accounts Committee
NAMA Financial Statement 2020 and Special Report 111 of the Comptroller and Auditor General
9:30 am
Mr. Brendan McDonagh:
It is because I am talking about a limited number of debtors who are house builders who have managed, by working with their portfolio, to improve value to pay off their debt. A lot of the debtors who came into NAMA were overlent by the banks originally. They overpaid for assets and, to be honest, a lot of them were amateurs. They were the ones who had a lot of the losses in the portfolio. It is a mixed bag, but the majority of the debtors' assets have never recovered in value. They overborrowed from the banks on day one. I would love to be in a position to say that all those debtors, 800 of them, came into NAMA, the banks lent them €74 billion, we paid €32 billion for the loans and suddenly that went back up to €74 billion, but that is not-----
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