Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 September 2023

Public Accounts Committee

NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General

9:30 am

Mr. Brendan McDonagh:

They are collateral but we do not control the collateral; we control the loans. It like a case where one has a house and a mortgage from Bank of Ireland. In that case the bank cannot come into your house just because it has a loan to you. I have a mortgage and I would not let the bank that loaned me the money into my house. That is the way it is.