Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 June 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Kevin Cardiff:

The clear communication back that they believed that INBS had this hole. Okay, now, what I got back was a different message. What I got back was a message that they were concerned, that they were not in the mood to take on this problem, that they thought its property book had some real problems, but I saw absolutely no quantification of it and, indeed, when I was looking through the documents, and you have it here now, it wasn't clear to me whether their minute implies that they even told the regulator at the time that this was their view. This seems to be a discussion that they had afterwards. So, "No" is the answer. They didn't say ... at least no one told me that they said that INBS had a hole in its balance sheet to that extent but they were certainly signalling some issues. And for us, remember, this was important, not because of INBS which was, as I said, a small problem, it was important because if they were saying that about INBS, were there things we were ... started to ask ourselves were there things that they know about the property market from their own books that they haven't told us? So, this was our worry.

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