Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 June 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Tom O'Connell:

I think you still could have done, yes. But again it's more ... you could say it is a bit of wishful thinking, you know. Nobody can ... can say ex antewhether it is going to be a soft or a hard landing. I mean, when the stability report came out in November 2007 that was eight or nine months since the peak of the property market so there had been, sort of, a gradual decline and maybe the ... extrapolating that the hope was that that would continue and they wouldn't have a complete collapse, you know.

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