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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Economic and Monetary Union: Discussion (Resumed) with Central Bank (30 Apr 2013)
Professor Patrick Honohan: I thank the Chairman. I would like to pick up on some of the issues Deputy Eric Byrne raised. One of the questions he asked was about exiting from the programme. One year ago a couple of seemingly well informed people from abroad came to me and said we would not get out of this programme at the end of 2013 and that it was a joke. I said to wait and see. Now...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Economic and Monetary Union: Discussion (Resumed) with Central Bank (30 Apr 2013)
Eric Byrne: We need to think of the public out there. They would have been suffering even more.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Economic and Monetary Union: Discussion (Resumed) with Central Bank (30 Apr 2013)
Eric Byrne: What about the ratio of 123% of GDP? Does Professor Honohan have an opinion on whether we can exit the programme with a debt ratio that high?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Economic and Monetary Union: Discussion (Resumed) with Central Bank (30 Apr 2013)
Eric Byrne: ...price of gold means it is not as sound an investment as it was supposed to be. In the banking sector, the delegates last week and this week touched on the investment in the Bank of Ireland by American investors. Others are buying property all over the country and expecting to make a killing. They are delighted to be investing here. There is, therefore, some hope we are moving in the...