Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 20 June 2017

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

Irish Mortgage Market: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission

2:00 pm

Dr. Cormac Keating:

When we spoke to entrants and potential entrants, both domestically and from abroad, what concerned them more was not Government ownership of a bank, because they realise Government ownership of a bank had to happen after the situation that occurred, but legislative proposals to change the market for players once they have invested.

I will go back to the issue concerning net interest margins.