Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 September 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Tom Browne:

Yes, well, I think you have to look at the exceptions. Every exception has to be look ... looks ... looked at in terms of its materiality. An exception could be the following: if credit policy says that interest cover has to be 1.3 times, the lending manager brings a loan to credit committee and, say, the loan is €5 million and the interest cost is, say, at a rate of 5%, so that means the cost of funding that loan is €250,000. So, at 1.3 times, you need €325,000 of income to actually tick the box in terms of-----

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