Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 October 2018

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

Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with the Central Bank

9:30 am

Mr. Ed Sibley:

It is important to state that we are not doing this on our own. We are very heavily engaged with our colleagues in the UK and through the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority, EIOPA, in the case of insurance companies to make sure that there is a very clear handle on who is writing business where. Deputy Michael McGrath also referred to the outward question as well on which we are also working. We are making sure to the best of our ability that we close out this issue. Similar to other non-financial areas, it may result in a reduction in the levels of supply in certain areas. It is very difficult for us to say to policyholders today what we would require them to do in the circumstance that their contingency plans are being implemented, but we will keep that very much under review. The focus we have had to date is very much driving the firms to address it and to communicate with the brokers that are selling the products to make sure that they can fulfil the policy for its duration, but there is some tail risk, which is basically what I am talking about, which we are keeping very much under review and how we are engaging on that with the firms as well as in our engagement with consumers.

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