Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 June 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Professor Patrick Honohan:
Yes. No, I mean, I came to a ... before I was appointed, I came to a committee here in the building and I said I think the range of uncertainty is very wide, about €50 billion wide, so it could have been, like, €45 billion or something like that, as a total net cost of the problem. When I came in, there were some calculations had been done on the basis of ... but extrapolating into the rest of the portfolio I said ... I remember saying quite clearly, I think it was my first meeting of the Central Bank board, I said, "This looks like a €25 to €30 billion problem." It turned out to be a €40 billion problem so----
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