Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed)

2:00 am

Dr. Robert Kelly:

Investment and that. There are other areas and I think part of it is focused on agriculture. These become specialised providers. In reality what they are doing is they are understanding what are hard to capture as broad risks. They are understanding those risks in relativity and they are pricing credit to it. Generally, it is more expensive than bank credit but it reflects segments that need investment and carry a different type of risk. We are seeing the financial market moving that way. In ways it is probably redistributing capital globally through our financial system, but that is a little bit different from our discussions around the savings and investment union, which would certainly just increase the amount of that available. Ultimately, that would drive down some of the costs and some of the risk because there would be more liquidity in the system. We would also have the gains for households to potentially have higher returns. I do not whether I have answered everything or there is anything missing.

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