Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 January 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Context Phase

Professor Philip Lane:

What should have happened was that, while on its own terms the NPRF was a good idea, one could have set up a second fund. A lot of countries such as Chile have several stabilisation funds to cope with the long term, the cycle and so on. One can have a long-term fund to deal with these long-term aging issues and a cyclical fund to deal with the rainy day.