Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 July 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Photo of Michael D'ArcyMichael D'Arcy (Fine Gael)
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Okay. Thank you. The markets had come to a position in relation to the liquidity in relation to Irish banks. The Morgan Kelly theory is that it wasn't anything to do with the US sub-prime, or the freezing of the liquidity markets, that it was a matter that the markets had decided that the exposure to property, in particular commercial real estate, that the Irish balance sheets of financial institutions were compromised.