Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 July 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Derek Quinlan:

Well, following Lehmans, the banking system here collapsed and Bank of Ireland, sorry, the share price in Bank of Ireland in the beginning of September 2008, Mr. Chairman was six, approximately €6 and by Christmas it was 10 cent. Nobody would have forecast that. And so the banks here seized up and if the banks seize up, there's no ... there's no business.

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