Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 February 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Context Phase
Susan O'Keeffe (Labour)
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Mr. Nyberg refers to the loan loss provisioning levels in covered banks falling between 2003 and 2007 in page 43 of his report, stating, "As a consequence, increased accounting profits effectively provided additional capital of up to €3.5 billion to the covered banks and this, in turn, increased their capacity to lend by over €30 billion". Can Professor Connor dwell on that for us? Does that make sense?