Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 October 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Operations and Functions: National Asset Management Agency

3:20 pm

Mr. Brendan McDonagh:

The objective for NAMA under section 10 of the legislation is to get the best achievable return. Usually there is competitive tension in the final phase between two or three buyers who are anxious to bid for a portfolio. We have to take a commercial view that once we sell the assets, whatever the buyer does is his or her decision because he or she paid for them.