Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 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. John Collison:

The timing was important. Our CEO appeared before the committee on 29 September and I think he might have referred to the timing. We were about to exit the troika and at that time our bond redemption targets were looming - we had probably redeemed €7.5 billion at that point - and we still had a long way to go. This was an opportunity to generate momentum in that area in terms of generating cash.