Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 June 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. John Moran:

No, no. What I meant by that specifically and, I mean, there was an adjustment to the amount of time to do the adjustment anyway of one year, but what I meant specifically was that the ... the ... and if you'll forgive me, because I don't know the exact ... the numbers, but let's just, to make it easier to understand ... give ... put two numbers on it. Let's assume that the interest rate that was being charged to us on the bailout was 6%, okay, and it was set at a level that was effectively two or three percent above the cost of funds of the European partners ... and the reason was is that they had a fear that if we actually got cheap money, because Ireland was never going to be AAA in the short term, that we might decide that this was something we should stay on and we keep on it even though the country recovered. The ... the IMF rules are slightly different, they actually apply a surcharge at a certain point, so the interest rate steps up so that you don't stay on it. Our sense was that if you ran our numbers, on a 6% number, which was really creating a 3% benefit - and again I ... I'm ... I don't want to be quoted on the 3% but-----

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