Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 January 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Context Phase

Photo of Michael McGrathMichael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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I welcome Mr. Regling. I will take him back to the fraught environment in September 2008. Lehman’s bank filed for bankruptcy on 15 September. What would have been the implications for the eurozone if a bank had collapsed in the eurozone, not necessarily in Ireland, if there was a disorderly failure of a bank at a time when there was such a liquidity crisis following the collapse of Lehman's?