Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 May 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Tom Parlon:

Well, as ... again I say there was a vacuum there and some of our members expressed their concerns through the Irish House Builders Association. And that's ... my role as the director general, and would have been Liam's previously, when there is an issue in one of our associations they come up the line and say, "Look it, can we have the support of the CIF on this?" And so on. We set up a subcommittee that time, which was made up of people who had a large degree of both involvement and experience and they sort of raised the issues and, as a result, we invested in the external advice. But certainly-----