Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 April 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Context Phase

Mr. John Moran:

It does not matter anyway. One way or the other they were ahead of where inflation was. Should it have been a warning signal - yes absolutely. There was a lot of catch up going on. We had started from a very, very low base but at the same time, one does not look just at the CPI as one of the metrics, one also had to look at what was happening with consumer spending which was increasing rapidly.