Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 June 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Tom Considine:

Sorry, excuse me, I ... I, just to be clear, I'm not disputing that. If we had had, you know, greater buffers in our system, say, just for argument's sake, twice as much as we had, we would have been able to withstand this, so, I'm not saying that we're not responsible for what happened to us. But the trigger for it ... the trigger, what set it off, is all I'm saying, came from outside.