Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 November 2012

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 4 - National Pensions Reserve Fund
Chapter 25 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2011
National Pensions Reserve Fund Commission - Financial Statements 2011

11:00 am

Mr. John Corrigan:

It would have been agreed in advance that this was our expectation. My colleague, Eugene O'Callaghan, will correct me if I am wrong because I may also butcher the terminology. In simple terms, if one were doing a large share trade today, the implementation shortfall would measure the deviation between the actual share price secured and the opening share price. In other words, it seeks to measure in simple terms the market impact of unloading a large number of shares onto the market. It takes as a starting point the opening price, although one will not achieve this price if one sets out to sell more than 4 million shares. Not only would the bank have known the implementation shortfall; it would have been agreed with the bank.