Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 June 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. John McCarthy:

Yes, and I come back to the report - it's in one of the core documents - where myself and the current Secretary General did a detailed piece of economic analysis on what the impact would be of a fall in the level of economic activity in the housing market. We did not ... to be fair, we did not read across to what the implications were for financial stability. It wasn't our job at the time.