Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 10 June 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Mr. Tom O'Connell:
Sure, yes. I would have thought so because Ireland's collapse has not been a complicated one. It is not like ... the Irish banks did not get involved in the sub-prime mortgage assets in the States, some of which were divided up and they got credit ratings on. People have called it a common-or-garden, plain vanilla property crash. So it did not require any sophistication to figure out what was happening, if you saw the data in front of you relating to property prices and bank lending. I think I said in the opening statement you had about ten other banking crashes similar to that in the previous 20 years. So it did not require any sophisticated sort of simplification for the board members to figure out what was happening.
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