Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 September 2021
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny (Resumed): Minister for Finance
Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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We are monitoring it. We believe that our capital markets and banking systems are resilient and able to deal with any contagious effect from the issue that the Chair refers to. It is the case, as can be seen in changes in the pricing of certain commodities and the performance of particular equities, that we live in a deeply interconnected world and changes that take place in the Chinese banking sector definitely have the ability to influence the performance of the global economy and national economies which are intertwined with China. We are monitoring it. We do not have a specific exceptional link to what could be happening with the development of that enterprise but it is far from obscure.