Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 July 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Mr. Michael O'Flynn:
Sorry. I always worked on the rule of ... the old rule was two thirds, one third and I think we all got into the 70:30, and sometimes, perhaps, pushed it over the 70%, but we were always talking about a third, 30%, you know, maybe it went down a bit. Now, I would say that's not enough. I mean, we ... the old rule was that 70:30 was a good position to be. It served us well for 37 years in terms ... or thirty-something years at that stage in terms of how we operated because I don't think anybody, anywhere saw the scale of the shock that we were asked to take. So, we worked on the basis of a model that had served us well for decades but,-----
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