Peter Brown
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84 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 2 Aug
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Right.
Really, really difficult with guard resources stretched to the to the limit in terms of the EU presidency.
And then, of course, he's supposed to go and lay the foundation stone of the American embassy.
And will he meet President Connolly?
Will she have to give a speech?
So the whole thing is just something we don't need.
But unfortunately, given his ego, I'd suggest he'll turn up.
Okay, well, kind of, it was set up in 2009 as a response to the banking crisis because the banks were bust and they were dysfunctional, right?
So somebody had to look at and manage kind of the debt and the debts, right?
Now, as Michael Noonan famously said at the time, right, it's open season for the small fella.
what the big fella is going to be protected.
And that's exactly what happened, right?
You know, and it goes back to that old saying that if you owe the bank 100,000 to your responsibility, you're responsible and if you owe them 10 million, they're responsible.
You know, it had a budget to recoup 5.5 billion and it beat that, it recouped 5.6 billion.
NAMA, along with the decision not to burn the bondholders, both of which were very controversial at the time, actually put Ireland in a phenomenally beneficial financial situation.
The level of our debt that we financed at 0%, the cost of funding our debt is really, really, really exceptional in a European context, way cheaper than most of our peers, way cheaper in the UK, way cheaper than France.
So it benefits the recovery.
Well, it did a lot in terms of the housing.
I mean, kind of in terms of getting lands, getting things built, getting houses built.
It did a lot in returning assets, right?
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