Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 February 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Context Phase

Dr. Donal Donovan:

The increase in lending to what I am calling the developer sector was actually much larger than the increase in mortgage lending. It seems to me that if that sector had been looked after, the bill would have been far less. If it had just been residential mortgages, arguably, one could have managed. Yes, there would have been losses, indeed, large losses but-----