Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 November 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. Patrick Long:

Yes and I guess it had a choice between not bidding at all - because it was not comfortable paying the reserve price - or sending us a letter with a price it was comfortable paying. That is what it chose to do; the logical thing to do. Had it said to us that it could not get to the reserve price but was still interested in acquiring this portfolio then we would have asked it, inevitably, what price it could get to.