Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 June 2013

Public Accounts Committee

Special Report No. 72 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Regulator (Resumed)

2:50 pm

Mr. Matthew Elderfield:

Yes. Loan-to-income limits would be a possibility. Most jurisdictions do loan-to-value rather than loan-to-income. It has not been a live issue in Ireland for obvious reasons right now so I have not spent much time examining the different trade-offs and what is the best way of approaching this. We are doing an assessment of our powers on macro-prudential tools but it is not a burning issue right now. In the next phase of the journey of improving regulation that will be something to engage the banks with but it is not top of the priority list for the short term.

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