Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 April 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Mr. Donal Forde:
Okay. Yes, we were conscious of it but, at the time, the view was that mortgages were going to be so preferentially treated under the new Basel II regulations that, actually, those margins could contract further because these ... as an asset, they were particularly favourably treated, essentially under Basel II, in a manner that perhaps in hindsight wasn't justified. And for that reason, again, the view was that those margins would continue to contract. So, as with other elements, we didn't see the risk in that.
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