Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 May 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Patrick Neary:

250%. That's right, with a common predominant risk factor. Now, it was a guideline, and it was a useful one, and ... it was ... it was ... I suppose an indicator to, to banks what, you know, a prudent limit on this might look like. But there was ... there was a lot of trouble with the interpretation of that particular concentration limit. I think it was very easy to game it, because there was a lot of discretion about, well, what's a common predominant risk? And, I mean, everything was lumped into that. You had ... you could have a land bank, you could have, you know, a-----