Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 10 June 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Mr. Cyril Roux:
Okay. So I'll take them one by one. The first is independence accountability, that's Basel principle 2. So the independence of the Central Bank and the Financial Regulator has been found to be compromised in Ireland by the fact that the Secretary General of the Department of Finance is a member of the CBI commission. And the other independence issue that has been raised by the IMF is the fact that members of the commission, including myself, can be removed without explanations being given. So, I see that, for instance, in other countries, such as France, if the French deputy governor cannot be removed, cannot just ... cannot be removed unless for, you know, just egregious behaviour, but he cannot be removed. I can be removed today, and with no explanation given, and other members of the Central Bank Commission.