Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 September 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Marco Buti:

All this multi-form assessment, which is ... takes place in terms of the financial system essentially by the new institution in the banking union, a single supervisory mechanism.

And what we are doing at the European level, I'm confident that will allow to spot more, you know, in a more rapid fashion, in a more comprehensive way the imbalances coming, as one of the important innovation that we have in the new co-ordination system is the macroeconomic imbalances procedure. And the macroeconomic imbalances procedure should help precisely to tackle the issue that you, you highlight. Ireland is subject to macroeconomic imbalances procedure and as part of the surveillance we will look also at the ... let's say, avoid the first signs of possible accumulation of risks and a new bubble, knowing that memory is very short usually.

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