Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 27 May 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Michael D'Arcy (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
Yes, okay.
Irish bank share prices have continued to fall and have lost between 30% and 50% of their value since start of ['07]. Notwithstanding the posting of good results by [a bank] ... its share price fell by 6% that day, at one point falling 8%, perilously close to the 9% figure at which trading in a share is temporarily suspended. The decrease in value of Irish bank shares has been greater than in other countries. There is a general discount in the value of Irish banks as there is a perception internationally that they are exposed to property market - reinforced in a 7 November report from [another institution] setting out a negative perspective in the Irish banking sector because of property exposures.
Now that was in a report to the DSG, of which you are a member, I believe.
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