Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 December 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Credit Union Sector: Discussion (Resumed)

2:30 pm

Ms Anne Marie McKiernan:

We developed the proposals in the registry. We considered it is an appropriate risk-based approach to try to ensure that members of credit unions were adequately protected. As the Deputy rightly says it is the first line of responsibility of credit unions to protect their members' funds and it is the second line of defence by us, as regulator, to ensure that we take sector-wide responses as necessary to ensure that-----