Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 July 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Paul Gallagher:

Never put to us. But, Deputy, I make clear in my - and I think it's important to address this - I make clear in my statement burden-sharing was not a feature of the legal system of any of the European countries at that stage. The United Kingdom brought in burden-sharing in 2009, Germany in 2010, Spain in 2012, France in 2013, and, most importantly of all, Europe in 2014. Secondly, bailing in involves a failure of the bank, so you start bailing in because you say the bank is going to fail. That, of course, creates huge issues of contagion and systemic risk; it's not a thing that is lightly done, and, even now, it is an issue that creates difficulties.

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