Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 June 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Professor Patrick Honohan:

No, no, no, this is the Government saying, "That's ... that money is down the drain unless something really surprising happens and Anglo suddenly turns back into profit", which was believed by some people and indeed other parts of the Anglo management were developing a plan to build the entity up and start making profits and so forth, so you could imagine that it could be done but on a base case, it wouldn't.