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. Oliver Ellingham:

The pressure he was under was because of financial events in Ireland as a whole to try to pay down the debt as quickly as possible to get the contingent liability off the State balance sheet so it could start refinancing and not have a second bailout. That would have been at the back of his mind but it was not of-----