Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 July 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Mr. Michael O'Flynn:
The global crisis had a big influence. I think the euro situation, that euro lending that when we went into the euro and the lending that happened as a consequence of that and the access to money by the banks. And that's how the banks grew because of the access overnight and the access to short-term money. I think that drove property prices and I think property contributed but I think the bigger macro issues were the root cause rather than we were the cause. We were a contributor but not the cause.
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