Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 September 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Photo of Eoghan MurphyEoghan Murphy (Dublin South East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Thank you, Chairman, and thank you, Mr. Browne. Just to come back to this 2006 policy change. You decide you're going to stay with your proven clients, the big developers who've got large scale projects in Ireland and that's going to be the MO from 2006 on. And then total lending in Ireland doubles over this period of time. Were you placing too much trust in these special clients that you were sticking with from 2006? And I'm not asking you about trust in their business abilities, I'm asking about trust in their wealth, how much you perceived that they owned, their exposures in terms of their assets or what they were developing and too much trust in terms of how much they were telling you they were borrowing from others?

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