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:
I agree. Listen, Senator, these are policy decisions. I am not responsible for Government policy. Anyone can have views about the way things could be done. To me, and for NAMA, it was about keeping the money in the system. If we had sold those properties to a third party and they started leasing them to the AHBs, the money would be leaving the system and going to the people who bought the properties rather than coming back into-----