Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 June 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Photo of Ciarán LynchCiarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

So, maybe if I could maybe draw upon that analogy of stepping on the brakes, there maybe is a case to check the brakes every now and again and make sure that the brake discs and the shoes inside there are actually in order and if I could take you through the following graphs. The first one up there is the increase in credit between property and other sectors excluding financial intermediaries and you see in February '99, there is kind of a concurrency. Okay, one is over the other but by February '09, it's like the difference between Carrauntoohil and Mount Everest - the difference between those two spikes or two peaks and if you can just move on to the next number of graphs there. You have the ... if you go on to page 3, or sorry, page 11 of the next document, you have cyclical taxes as a percentage of revenue which is page, sorry page 3, my apologies there. It's page 11 on the other document ... page 3.

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