Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 15 January 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Context Phase
Professor Patrick Honohan:
Oh yes, sellers of property at high prices did very well, not all land speculators because some of them ploughed the money back in and then---- Deputy Higgins is absolutely right, but it was not just land speculators, it was also perfectly ordinary people who just happened for whatever reason to sell the property they had at high prices.
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