Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 29 April 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Michael Buckley:

Yes, absolutely. Yes, there were very big increases in that year and a half period or so before I finally retired and I would say there were two reasons for that. One, as I said in my opening statement, the economy was beginning to recover from a pretty tough few years after the dotcom, and we got ... there was a sort of catch-up spurt I think.