Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 March 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Overview of the Credit Union Sector: Discussion

9:30 am

Photo of Michael McGrathMichael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It gave the public message that the credit union sector was a basket case. In October 2011, the Minister went into the Seanad and said the cost of rescuing the credit union sector could be up to €1 billion. It has ended up being €4 million. What message did it send? The assumptions that were made in that stress analysis came nowhere near being met in reality.

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