Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 May 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Liam Kelleher:

Not between banks and the CIF, as an organisation, on that issue. But obviously the members of the CIF ... well we would have been aware of demographic forecasts from the CSO, from economic and demographic forecasts indeed from the ESRI or the Department of Finance and the Central Bank. So obviously there was ... there was, if you like, a shared pool of information that we would feed off, and that would drive our confidence that construction activity and housing activity should continue at a high level.