Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 September 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Banking Issues: Discussion
Dr. Colin Hunt:
I am not going to comment on whether we could absorb two, three, four or five. Every one will be looked at in isolation. We are already facing quite a significant increase. We are required, as part of our capital structure, as is every systemically important institution like us across the European Union, to raise a certain amount of capital in the form of what is known as the minimum requirement for own funds and eligible liabilities, MREL. We issue bonds to the market to comply with those very sensible requirements. They ultimately protect depositors in the event of banking failure across the system. The yields on our own bonds on issue have increased by between 2% and 4.5% since the start of this year.
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