Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 10 September 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Mr. Marco Buti:
We are in close contact with the IMF.
We have ... when the IMF, under their regular procedure - an Article IV mission - take place, we are in touch with them and we know that what is the schedule and what is the calendar of these meetings. As far as I'm aware, we must ... we may have talked with them at a very technical desk level, as we always do. I was not personally aware of, let's say, the specific content of the discussions. But I'm not ... given the situation at the time, I'm not surprised by the fact that these ... these discussions could have taken place. And Mr. Mody was responsible for the Article IV mission, so I think it's all natural that that would take place.
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