Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 April 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Context Phase

Photo of Michael McGrathMichael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Did the nature of lending to the commercial real estate sector during the boom years, and the emergence of non-recourse lending, which limited the risk of the borrower to the underlying security of the property itself, and then perhaps subsequently personal guarantees coming to the fore, fuel the demand for more credit, if it was being offered on those terms that no additional security was being required by the institutions?

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