Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 June 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Cyril Roux:

Yes. Well, I think the people best placed to judge are people that are professional supervisors and know what good supervision look like and bad supervision look like. And who are they? Peers? So ... or the IMF? And we go through constant IMF and peer reviews. So, for instance, fitness and probity standards, okay, this is less harmonised than capital requirements. So we have guidelines and ... from the EBA. The EBA conducted a review of our fitness and probity performance in 2014 and out of all the countries in the EU, only eight were fully compliant and were at the highest standard of fitness and probity surveillance, and Ireland was part of that. Now, I think we can get some comfort on this bit. And then you have how we monitor large exposures. There's another review there by the EBA. Then you have the IMF reviews. The IMF teams ... they go throughout the world looking at the way, you know, national supervisory authorities operate. So I think we can take their reviews, you know, seriously. So we had the 2013 review, which was published in spring of 2014 ... they're coming back, and in the spring of 2016, they will be back here and they will do a financial service programme review, an FSAP review. And so we'll be doing another round of, you know, assessment of our effectiveness.