Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 June 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Photo of Michael McGrathMichael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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But NAMA, ultimately NAMA paid €31.8 billion for loans with a face value of €74 billion. So there was a shortfall of €42 billion which the taxpayers had to plug then through recapitalisation. So, did you ever believe in early 2009 that the NAMA initiative would result in, in that type of a shortfall?