Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 June 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Mr. Kevin Cardiff:
I can describe them in general terms. For most of the years we are talking about, especially if you are talking about pre the time when I was Secretary General, I wouldn't have been the co-ordinator. But, basically what happens is an IMF team arrives, they spend a couple of weeks, they do an extensive consultation, they have generally done a very, very thorough desk analysis before they arrive and before they leave, they write up a document - 30 or 40 pages, I think - which is their assessment. They then come to the ... what they call the authorities ... but to the Department of Finance or to the Central Bank Governor or whoever. I think, in theory, both the Minister and the Governor are members of the IMF in some way or the other.
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