Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 March 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Context Phase

Professor Patrick Honohan:

Absolutely and that is why I am saying - people are surprised - that even with the evidence that was there, they should have seized control over Anglo. It had lost the confidence of the markets, had no cash and in an extreme stress situation, it could have wiped out its capital. I am not disputing that at all. I actually am making that point and people seem to be surprised.