Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 February 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Context Phase

Photo of Joe HigginsJoe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

I will move on. As part of a discussion on the Nyberg report, Professor Black said that the Irish economic environment before 2007 was not benign and that it was the largest bubble proportional to GDP of any developed nation. He further said that what happened in the banks was exceptionally profitable to the senior officers leading the banks.

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