Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 April 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Brian Goggin:

There is an assumption by some people that, you know, wholesale markets are bad and conventional deposits are good and that may very well be a valid comparison. However, there is also an assumption that core deposits or retail deposits or however you want to describe them, stay there; they don't. They are as prone to taking flight in the event of a fracture in a bank or in a banking system. We saw here and there were queues on the street outside Northern Rock when it got into difficulty. Ordinary retail customers will look for their money back-----