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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (7 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: That is the point. Mr. Carrigan has answered my question. As he stated, under existing law, the term is "the due process of law". From what I heard from him, this process is not proposing any new laws at all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (7 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: Is there a section requiring states to pass new legislation? The lesson we learned is that under current legislation nobody seemed to be guilty of anything and yet some of the banks cost a great deal to bail out. It was a foregone conclusion to tell them that they were losing their jobs. I do not see anything in it about losing their salaries or future entitlements from the bank, or their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (7 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: Do the officials follow my train of thought?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (7 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: Five per cent of what?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (7 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: Is there no new legislation proposed to deal with it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (7 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: Mr. Dempsey mentioned the owners and shareholders taking losses. They all took a 100% loss on the Irish banks as well but it was not enough. They all lost. For anyone who had shares at €15 or €16, these were ending up at 11 cent. That was a complete loss as well. There is nothing new in shareholders taking a loss in a resolution situation. It is late and I will leave it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (7 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: That sounds to me as if an arrangement has been put in place to prevent what went wrong the last time from happening again. Inevitably, the next crisis, if there is to be one, will be different and will not be a recurrence of what happened the last time. It is like a house that went on fire for which one puts in place a system to prevent what happened the last time from happening again but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (7 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: It can borrow.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (7 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: Who will provide the backstop?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (7 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: Do not mind the detail; what institution will provide the backstop?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (7 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: We are not there yet. If it is decided that an institution is to go into resolution, will it be somewhat like what happened here when KPMG was called in? Who physically will manage the resolution? Will it be one of the big four accounting firms? Mr. Carrigan should talk me through this process. I have read the sentence that should a national resolution authority not comply with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (7 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: But I still do not know who will do the work of carrying out the resolution.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (7 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: Will it be hiring? That is like telling me that when the IBRC was liquidated, it was done by the Government. That is not the case, as the job was contracted out to somebody.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (7 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: Yes, it must have the authority to hire staff. However, it will not have staff in place because I hope they never will be needed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (7 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: That is a little like telling me that when it was decided to put the IBRC into liquidation, the supervisory authority knew some guy. The Central Bank is not involved in managing that process. Who physically will carry out the liquidation to which I am referring?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (7 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: There will be 240 people.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (7 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: The authority would not have the staff to carry out the resolution of a bank; 240 people would not cover it because they would also have their day job to do. My point is that it will be necessary to contract the work out to someone.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (7 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: Yes, in the authority, but they will not be-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (7 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: I hope they will never have any work to do. Mr. Carrigan is suggesting they are somewhat like the fire brigade.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (7 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: In a case in which it is deemed that a bank must be part of a resolution, what call will the resolution board have on the auditors who signed the most recent financial statements? A question arose in Ireland as to the reason the auditors had not spotted it. Mr. Carrigan should talk me through this process. We cannot have some of the big global accounting firms issuing audit certificates...