Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 3 March 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020
9:30 am
Ms Dara Deering:
The Deputy is absolutely right that the timing was May 2020. If we go back to when the lockdown announcement was made, construction sites closed. All construction activity finished during the first lockdown. Our assessment was based on our experience of lending into the marketplace. Unfortunately we saw during the previous global financial crisis that banks had to focus on other things, which meant that the availability finance for construction was constrained-----