Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 September 2023

Public Accounts Committee

NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General

9:30 am

Mr. Brendan McDonagh:

Deputy, I dispute the fact about effort. We engaged with the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media and the Department of the Taoiseach. They said they were interested in some sites, so we asked them to tell us what they were interested in and we would ensure the debtor engaged with them appropriately. They came back and identified what they wanted. It was their decision, not my decision. We told the debtor he had better engage with this. In fairness to him, he engaged with them and they bought what they wanted to buy, and what they identified. It was not me who identified it. It was they who identified it. That is all I can say, and I have been completely up-front with you.

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