Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 4 April 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with Central Bank of Ireland

10:00 am

Professor Philip Lane:

Let me be crystal clear. There is a very strong reason to have a calendar based review. It is once a year in November. It is not going to respond to month-by-month numbers because that system would be totally destabilising. There would be speculation. Every household would be thinking whether they should buy this month. Having a once a year review, where we look at the data on a once a year basis-----