Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 30 April 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Mr. Brian Goggin:
Well, I mean, the bank's ambition in the mid-2000s onward was to grow earnings per share by mid-teens. You know, we felt ... and we were wrong in this. We felt that we could grow the asset base across all of our portfolios in the order that we were doing and that that was a safe thing to do, both from a risk and a funding point of view.