Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 24 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
Mr. Brendan McDonagh:
If the discount was doubled, the figure would be about €1.28 billion or €1.3 billion. That was the thought process. That is part of the discussion when a board is clued into the financial world and things like that. All I say is that the €1.3 billion figure is not something that was easily bought or accepted by the board; rather the board came to a decision that it thought a minimum price of €1.3 billion for the portfolio was the appropriate price but that there should be a competitive process in order to try to get more than €1.3 billion.