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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: There's an obvious question that I-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Okay.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Well, then can I just ... do you believe that the developer/building sector took too much risk, we'll say, in the period from '05 onwards to '08? And did it involve groupthink amongst builder/developers, in hindsight?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: From what date?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: From when?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Okay.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Builder, yes.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Previously wasn't there?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: And the final question ... the final question then, Mr. O'Flynn is, have we reached an equal ... an equilibrium point, where the cost of building the family home, the three-bedroomed, semi-detached house is at the same ... at a level where builders like yourself will build those homes?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Yes.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: I suppose the question I'm really asking you-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Thank you.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Welcome, Mr. Gallagher. Was the Government, in your opinion, bounced into the decision for the, on the night of the guarantee, given that the decision was taken incorporeally in terms of the Cabinet meeting and does the delay suggest a lack of preparedness by officials to the policy decision by Government?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: What date, what date?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: '07 or '08?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: So just to recap ... so from 30 November '07 on there was preparations taking place in the Department of Finance-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: -----across a range of measures?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Of '08?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Just before you go on there, could you tell us the measures that were being looked at from November '07 onwards?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: You were satisfied that was the case?