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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Last question now, Senator.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you very much. Deputy John Paul Phelan.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: There's some phone interference coming by you there, Senator. Obviously-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I appreciate that, but sometimes proximity can cause it so, if it is, I'd ask the member to deal with it, please; not to have it interfering with your questioning.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Last question, Deputy.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay, thank you very much. I'm moving to wrap things up. First up is Senator MacSharry. Senator.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay, thank you. Deputy Murphy.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Final question, Deputy.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: It's Galway races week, lads. I'm sorry about that; that's where that came from. Time is up. I don't know where that came from, Deputy. I'm going to wrap things up. Something that struck me this morning when you were talking, Mr. Merriman, and as you go along the journey, you sometimes forget the obvious, and that the EBS was set up to assist teachers to buy homes and that's the start of...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: At any stage during that journey, did you say to yourself, or was it discussed in the bank, the purpose of the establishment to which we serve, which was to allow a particular, sort of, income group ... and they become the classical, sort of, teacher and guard, in terms of looking at affordability-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: -----it's ... we're now moving from 20 years out to 35 years to give these people mortgages, the ratios of their incomes with regard to the loans that were given to them are now out of kilter severalfold and other matters relating to that. Was that ever, ever discussed?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: But the affordability in that competition became difficult and more difficult than when-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: So for the purchase-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I'm going to bring matters to an end.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Yes.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: You can, indeed. Quickly, before we go.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Just a clarification not a question now.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Yes.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: All right, Deputy-----