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)
3:00 pm
Mr. Matthew Elderfield:
That is also a good question. We published some pretty tough provisioning guidelines a year and a half ago, which prompted a lot of increased provisions and more transparency. We published another set of provisioning guidelines a month ago which we would anticipate at the end of the year will prompt even more robust provisioning. We are saying if they are not on a sustainable basis we are going to require even more conservative provisioning. I think the provisioning policy framework is quite tight and the provisioning has got a lot better.
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