Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 October 2018

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

Behaviour and Culture of the Irish Retail Banks Report: Central Bank of Ireland

9:30 am

Professor Philip Lane:

I will make two other points. I agree with the Senator about the moral hazard of the bailout, not just here but elsewhere. That was part of the mindset going into the crisis. However, in that situation they were counting on the taxpayer to step in, which happened. In this situation there is no taxpayer step-in. If they have left a customer-----

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