Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 May 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2012
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Finance Accounts 2012

12:25 pm

Mr. John Moran:

In effect, it is a new management team that was put in place. It is travelling on a path a little bit behind Bank of Ireland, as everyone in the investor community would acknowledge. It has taken time to get a management team in place to deal with the issues. The bank will reach profitability a little later than Bank of Ireland, but it has already identified a clear path in that regard. At that stage, Parliament should probably start considering whether it would be appropriate to sell and, if so, how much of the bank to sell.