Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 June 2013

Public Accounts Committee

Special Report No. 72 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Regulator (Resumed)

1:40 pm

Mr. Matthew Elderfield:

We have set targets. I believe we will get them back shortly. The deadline for the first targets is the end of quarter 2. We will get raw reports from the banks but they will be un-audited by us. In the first instance I will be somewhat sceptical or cautious, for the reasons suggested by the Comptroller and Auditor General, because we want to test these things. I believe the banks will hit the targets in terms of the numbers. The senior management are saying to me that they are very confident about doing so. However, we need to check that they are on sustainable terms. There are two aspects to it. Did they get the numbers and are they going fast enough? What are they offering on sustainable terms?