Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 26 February 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Context Phase

Mr. David McWilliams:

If the bank is illiquid it will go insolvent. That is the key. If one thinks it is illiquid then one has to prevent it from being illiquid because if it is illiquid it will go insolvent in a panic. It does not matter if one thinks the banks might necessarily be solvent. They will become insolvent when liquidity dries up so one has no choice.

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