Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 September 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Mr. Tom Browne:
No, I think, you know, the growth in the loan book had happened over a period of time. You would have been very comfortable, you know, up to 2006 in terms of where you were at in terms of the overall exposure, but from 2006 on, as the market definitely became softer, we tried to curtail our activity in regard to actually this element of the market and, unfortunately, we did continue to support some of the bigger clients who were the most active players and, as a result of that, the loan balances grew.
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