Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 June 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. William Beausang:

Yes, well, I mean ... I will refer you to the speech given by the deputy governor of the Central Bank in February 2012, where he's making the point very strongly in talking about the use of macro-prudential policy and the important role that it needs to play in the future. He says macro-prudential policy makers must enjoy independence because every now and again macro ... there'll be a requirement to constrain the economy during a boom, which obviously should have happened, and there would undoubtedly be strong pressure from financial institutions and from the political system, more generally, not to go down that road. So, I mean he made a very strong argument that for as much as central banks, you know, in moving forward on monetary policy there's a need for independence, the same independence has to apply for macro-prudential policymakers.

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