Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 27 September 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
General Banking Issues: Discussion
Dr. Colin Hunt:
I know, and the other thing on top is what we put in place and is called a post-model adjustment. We added it in the first six months of this year. I cannot recall the precise number but we added more because we take a forward-looking and conservative approach to provisioning. As and of today, this is something we are watching very closely. We are watching right the way across the loan book and looking for very early signs of distress so we can intervene proactively. We are just not seeing it. We put in a very extensive suite of early warning indicators in anticipation of a hard Brexit because we were concerned about how a hard Brexit would impact on our customers.
We have augmented that through COVID and through the Ukraine crisis. We now have a set of early warning indicators that are extraordinarily comprehensive and we are just not seeing the distress coming through.
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