Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 December 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2016
Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Liquidation
9:00 am
Mr. Des Carville:
The commitment was related to retrospective recapitalisation. When it was mooted as a concept, the world was a different place. We now have a different scenario in which, with the exclusion of IBRC, the shareholdings we have in the banks show on a paper basis a profit of €1.6 billion. A sum of €64 billion was put into the banks. We distinguish between the living and the dead, or liquidated banks, in that regard, of which the latter cost €35 billion as per the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General. A total of €29.4 billion was put into the three living banks which are quoted. We expect to get back more than €29 billion; therefore, it offers a better outcome than retrospective recapitalisation would have.
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