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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: All right, well ... all right, well, what's ... make the relevance to evidence, Deputy, and then I'll make ... I'll move on with the question.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay, thank you. Deputy Higgins.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Yes, but we have it on screen anyway here, Mr. Doyle.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Ask, and I'm going to move on then, Deputy, thank you.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: We have to test that evidence now, by the way, Deputy. So, first of all, would you concur with what is being presented, and do you have a view on it? Like, that evidence has to be tested.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Senator Sean Barrett.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: That's supplementary-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: It's on the screen in front of you, you don't need to be going through those books there.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I ... I'm ... because the matters and the feeling where I'm actually I think you are actually going, Mr. Doyle, and because in my entry today, I spoke about other matters that are running concurrently and all the rest of it, I'm going to conclude that there. Senator, I'm moving on unless you have something really, really pertinent to ask that is not related to this matter?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Yes, very briefly if you can.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I'm moving on; we're not taking any more on Anglo.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: If I can just deal with one matter briefly with you before I bring in the next questioner who is Senator O'Keeffe. In an analysis paper you prepared in 2004 - it's coming up on the screen now, Mr. Doyle - it was estimated that a decline in housing output of 10,000 units would cost the Government €500 million in lost revenue. Despite warning that the current level of housing output...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: In and around .... I think it's August '04 is the period-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Sorry, it's actually ... it is later in the year, it's quite recent.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Yes, '05, sorry. That was-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Yes.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay, can we maybe examine that proposition a bit further with you, Mr. Doyle, in that we do know, and we knew it then as well, that the construction sector was growing so exponentially that it had grown to nearly one quarter, just under one quarter of the Irish economy? And it was by any measure or means at least twice what it should be by EU norms or considered at a sustainable level,...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Well, we subsequently discovered afterwards that a lot of these houses were built in places nobody actually wanted them to be built.