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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you Mr. Moran once more and if I can invite you to make your opening remarks to the committee please.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you, Mr. Moran, for your opening remarks and if I can commence questioning and invite Deputy Michael McGrath first. Deputy.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Ah come on, will we drive on now guys? Give us the number.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Deputy Kieran O'Donnell.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: So it's not actually overruling; it's-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Can you ask the question rather than state it?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you very much, Deputy. Mr. Moran, if I can maybe just move on to kind of a similar theme with you? You seem to indicate in your statement that for the period of 2003 to 2008, the Department was reassured by the absence of any reference in the letters from the Central Bank Governor to a slowdown in housing, and by favourable assessments from an international body such as the IMF....

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: All right. Can I maybe just move on to one other item then? You refer to the December 2005 stability programme update which warned of the economy being vulnerable to the construction sector and that the Department had concluded that reliance on construction was becoming one of the biggest risks to economic development in the country. Could I ask you to elaborate in what way, if any, the...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay, and just to tidy up on Deputy O'Donnell's question there in regard to property incentives, how long is reasonable for those things? Do you think the incentives went beyond a reasonable period of time or were they ended in due-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Yes.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: In what way?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay. Thank you very much. Our next questioner is Senator Sean Barrett. Senator.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Ask a question, Senator.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you very much. Next questioner is Senator Susan O'Keeffe.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Deputy Higgins.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Is there any way, Joe, because we just keep getting longer-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Financial, you have it.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay. That's fair enough.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay. Thank you. Deputy John Paul Phelan.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you very much, Deputy, and I'm going to move to wrapping things up, if I can invite Deputy McGrath first, and then Deputy O'Donnell.