Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 10 June 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
John Paul Phelan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
Okay. I will change briefly then to the OECD reviews from 2006 and 2008, noting that house prices had overshot their fundamentals. In 2006 they did not rule out a hard landing but predicted that a soft landing was more likely. In both 2006 and 2008 it concluded that the banks were sufficiently well capitalised to be able to absorb any likely shocks. In your opinion, was the OECD's conclusions the result of data that they had obtained from the Central Bank or financial services regulator, or was it as a result of any independent analysis that they conducted themselves?
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