Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 29 July 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Alan Merriman:

Again, I need to be very clear in terms of what question I am addressing. So, I have explained that Ethna joined, I believe in 2000, she can confirm that later, development finance started in 2001, that explains why she said it was new to society. In terms of the specific question that you are asking me, my recollection is that Ethna moved on to the board advances committee, which is the committee of the board that approves loans beyond a certain size. I am guessing that was perhaps in this time period December 2006 to April 2007 and that's the committee amongst the board members that gets individual loan documents to approve if the society wishes to do it. So that would have been new to Ethna at that point, not new to the society but new to Ethna at that particular point in time. And in terms of her being inundated, look, that's a subjective comment.

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