Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 July 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Brian Cowen:

No. It wasn't a late realisation, it was the fact that once the change was coming that we were budgeting for it. But I keep emphasising, you know, Mr. Moran now is talking in the context of a crash. You know, at the time - I don't know where he was working at the time, he may have been in the Central Bank - there was no one suggesting that what happened was going to happen. So, let's be fair about it - we're all very wise in hindsight with 20/20 vision. But we were accommodating the change that was taking place, that's the point I want to make. It wasn't a question of going on budgeting and seeing that there were a change in output and not accommodating that. We were accommodating.