Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 May 2015

Public Accounts Committee

2013 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 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013

10:00 am

Ms Ann Nolan:

In 2010 there were a lot of other things going on in the Department and the bank was reluctant to change it, but the main reason was that in March 2011 there was the recapitalisation of the other banks, the PCAR, and the burning of the bondholders during June and July, and there was a set of things agreed under the programme. The question of the revised relationship frameworks came up in August when we had the other major bits done and they were discussed then between August 2011 and March 2012 and that is when they were put in place.