Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform
Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks
2:00 pm
Mr. David Duffy:
On Deputy Creed's issue of a board, the independence of a bank does have a bearing on its credit rating. It needs to be run as a commercially sustainable entity. That is an important factor when the rating agencies look at a bank and then they move to the components of the bank's performance beneath that. It is all of the above.
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