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:
No. The market changed and we were responding to it. Buyers were insisting on more information. If one is selling something, one needs to be able to react or risk not being able to maximise the price. One of the bidders that withdrew at a later stage had completed a substantial amount of due diligence and had sought from NAMA an underwriting of its costs as one of the conditions of staying in the process, which we flatly rejected. The market was evolving even then.