Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 March 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Appropriation Accounts and Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 6 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Financial Outturn for 2011
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 3 - Banking and Insurance Measures
Chapter 5 - EU Financial Transactions

1:10 pm

Mr. John Moran:

There is a very significant restructuring job to be done with AIB. We have a scenario where the international banking sector is not particularly strong. I know that the UK Treasury is struggling with the same issue. It is difficult to see a full transfer of a large bank like that into private ownership in the short term. We will continue to work, as we have done with Irish Life, with the parts of the system that we think that we can manage.