Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 15 April 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Access to Finance for SMEs: Bank of Ireland, Ulster Bank and AIB

4:30 pm

Mr. Bernard Byrne:

On the property recovery issue, the most important point to make is that there is no credit-fuelled bubble at this point in time in that up to 60% of purchasers are cash buyers. As such, there is no credit exposure this time. The market remains down by 45% to 47%.