Noonan ‘playing politics’ on Nama

The suggestion that Nama should be wound up early has been criticised as playing politics with the largest financial institution that the state has ever created.

Fianna Fáil’s finance spokesperson Michael McGrath accused the Government of contemplating winding up Nama in order to score political points before an election.

“The temptation for the Government is very clear — to go before the Irish people at the next election and say ‘we have got rid of Nama’. In opposition, the finance minister was an arch critic of Nama.