Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 April 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Recovery and Resolution Framework for Financial lnstitutions: Discussion

3:30 pm

Mr. Aidan Carrigan:

I will make a general comment first, if I may. The Deputy's question is a matter of live negotiation at the moment in Brussels as part of the legislative process. It is not yet in the form of a definitive proposal that says what the actual hierarchy will be among senior bondholders. There is still a lot of debate on how senior debt should be treated in a situation such as this. That is complicated by debate on things like depositor preferences and how deposit guarantee schemes should be bailed in. A number of issues are being debated on how to deal with senior debt in this situation. I do not know if Mr. Dempsey wants to comment further on that.

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