Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 17 November 2016
Public Accounts Committee
Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed)
9:00 am
Ms Éilish Finan:
Absolutely, it would have been a strategic material issue. It was an opportunistic lens. If there had been a potential bid earlier in the NAMA life for a London book of assets or a particular geographical sector or a particular group of borrowers, that would have been an opportunistic strategy and we absolutely would have looked at it. What happened in September 2013 was that a potential opportunity presented itself.