Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 June 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Okay. And that's something that Governor Honohan has raised before, before Oireachtas committees here in this House. Mr. Roux, can I refer to the core booklet, Vol. 1, page 26. I'll read out the section and it's very short. It's headed "Examples of Interactive Engagement". It says "Based on a review of [the] sample of board papers during 1992, 1995 and 2000, we have not identified matters escalated to the Board where it was decided that it was necessary to pursue prudential breaches by credit institutions on a more formal basis other than through interactive engagement based on moral suasion." The policy of approach in prudential breaches through interactive engagement based on moral suasion, based on your experience, would this be normal or not approach for a central bank to take?

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