Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 21 May 2025
Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach
Dissolution of National Asset Management Agency: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Brendan McDonagh:
At the end of the day, I did not seek this role. My name was in the paper for weeks before anybody spoke to me. The way this role was formulated or put together was not of my making. Other people made that decision. When they approached me I thought I could help. I offered myself up. The lesson for me is that sometimes trying to do the right thing does not necessarily always work out, but that is life.