Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 28 January 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Context Phase
Eoghan Murphy (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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The problem we had here in the build-up to the crisis was competition from other banks moving into the market. What we then had were new lending products and riskier lending strategies. Just to be clear, are we talking about the number of banks in a banking system or their size?