Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 9 July 2015
Public Accounts Committee
National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2014
9:30 am
Mr. Frank Daly:
It was a courtesy call, which quite often happens. That is not unusual for the chairs of big funds such as this one.
To answer the Deputy’s other question, on the night of 3 April, after the board had made the decision to sell the Northern Ireland portfolio to Cerberus, I rang the finance Minister in Northern Ireland, Simon Hamilton, to tell him, out of courtesy. He asked me to ring the First Minister, Peter Robinson, out of courtesy, which I did that night. I informed him that the board had approved the sale to Cerberus.
It was just a courtesy call, which I thought was appropriate, given the-----