Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 July 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Bertie Ahern:

I don't believe I ever believed it as Taoiseach. I thought we could manage our way through because I knew when we were building 88,000 houses in 2006 and '07, I went with the view that we would get back the 55,000 and, if you take the most conservative view, which is usually the Department of Finance's, which I normally followed, that ... well, can I answer you, please?