Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 October 2016

Public Accounts Committee

Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed)

10:00 am

Mr. Willie Soffe:

In the early years, the policy was to work out loans where there was no opportunity for bulk sales. The main opportunities we had to sell were in the London area. We had some opportunities here in Ireland. That is why if one looks at redemption figures, one will see that in the three years to the end of 2013, we paid down €7.5 billion of the debt. We had difficulty doing so.