Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 13 May 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Mr. Patrick Davitt:
I'd say that the conflicts of interest that were ... that were there, the valuation, like being instructed by a person who was buying a property to do a valuation is something that the institutes wouldn't like and still don't like, but it still happens in some cases. So, like, there obviously is, and which can be seen to be a conflict of interest there right from the start, but institutes would and we have a code of conduct, so we would expect members to act to that code of conduct.