Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 29 July 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Mr. Alan Merriman:
Look, I can't recollect, but it, clearly, grew over the course of time. I'm not sure ... I did see that; I heard that; that 1999, it was all non-wholesale. As a matter of fact, I'm not sure, I think ... I'd be interested in knowing, but, clearly, it grew substantially and, to answer your earlier question in this context, I would say ... you know, if you have a ... let me use very simple numbers ... if you have a €20 billion balance sheet and €10 billion of it is funded by wholesale funding, that is not something you deal with or change overnight. You've a €20 billion balance sheet of assets; €10 billion of it is coming from wholesale markets; it takes many, many, many years to try and change that needle.
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