Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 February 2024

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

Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland

Mr. Gabriel Makhlouf:

Let me start and then I will pass onto Mr. Madouros. First, with the withdrawal of Ulster Bank and KBC from the market there is less competition. Obviously we had even more banks in the market if one goes back a decade but we would not go as far as saying there is no competition.