Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 May 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. John Hurley:

No, it's not. Okay. In that letter, that referred to two studies in terms of price ... price overvaluation of 15% to 20%. At the time, that was the type of overvaluation that we would have been steering the market and the media about ... that level of overvaluation where we believed as a result of the reigniting of the market in 2006 and the significant increase ... unexpected increase that took place in lending in 2006 ... that there was a level of overvaluation in the market. Now, there was a discussion throughout 2006, to the best of my memory, about whether or not the Central Bank to actually promulgate a level of overvaluation ... should we plump for the level of overvaluation and we decided not to do that. We felt that it would be inappropriate and instead we steered towards an overvaluation of roughly 15% to 20%.

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