Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 10 March 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Context Phase
Mr. Simon Carswell:
I do not know if it came up specifically; I think the focus was on liquidity. However, in the run up to the night of the guarantee, there were certainly discussions around the solvency of the banks. In particular, a memorandum was released in which a senior Department of Finance official questioned just how much the capital losses would be at Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide Building Society and the need-----