Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 April 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Context Phase
Ms Marie Hunt:
The point I was making is as follows. When one invests in commercial real estate one must be prepared for the long-haul. It is not something one invests in only to divest in two or three years but over the long-term property performs well. The difficulty we had in the Irish scenario is that the banks were funding on a short-term basis to effectively fund a long-term investment. Possibly that contributed to the issue that we had.
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