How much (in net national economic terms) might have thereby been saved. This is not a question susceptible of any precise quantification: could a cost-sharing deal have been successfully negotiated? And if not, what then? All in all, a possible net economic saving in the area of € could be imagined, but surely no more than that.
20 If so, by September 2008, well over 90 per cent of the net economic cost to Ireland of the boom and bust had become unavoidable. The other areas of the Inquiry’s focus As mentioned, this Statement does not dwell on the other areas highlighted to me by the Inquiry, namely regulatory, supervisory and Government, and banking aspects.