Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 6 May 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Mr. Cormac McCarthy:
It was principally wholesale and corporate, because they were significant... they were of size. So if you were aware that a customer had a large amount of cash, and because you had a knowledge of a customer, then it would be... you know, it is easier to get that then a whole load of small deposits. So that was the behaviour at the time.
It didn't last very long, the regulator stepped in very quickly and the instruction was issued. I believe the Minister may have said something at the time that the guarantee was not to be used as a means of acquiring deposits. The guarantee was meant to be protecting your existing base and not as a means to go and take deposits from other institutions.
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