Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 September 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

General Scheme of European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion

5:20 pm

Photo of Stephen DonnellyStephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Am I correct in thinking, if we take Anglo Irish Bank as an example - another Anglo - and its losses were €30 billion, that the first level, which is 8%, would be €240 million and that the next level in the cascade, which is the resolution fund, would be 5%, which would be €150 million? In the case of Anglo Irish Bank, which on a European scale is tiny – it is big by Irish standards – of the €30 billion loss, one still has €29.6 billion left by the time one gets to the ESM. The cascade does not even slow it down.

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