So let’s get this clear. We have poured €34bn into IBRC including €30bn of promissory notes on which we are scheduled to pay a further €17bn in interest between now and 2031. IBRC has closed it branches, sold most of its deposits and doesn’t take new deposits, doesn’t advance new loans and is simply running down its loan book. It’s dead.
It is supposed to keep its banking licence to continue to obtain loans from the Central Bank secured on its promissory notes. No banking licence means no Central Bank loans. And of course without Central Bank loans, IBRC would collapse tomorrow, its creditors would get paid by whatever assets remained in the bank.
You might have thought that the €663,000-a-year chief executive officer of IBRC and his €500,000-plus a year juniors might have at least have been able to ensure IBRC complied with the terms of its banking licence.
Somewhere up in Cavan this morning, and perhaps in a court room in Dublin 1, there may be eyebrows raised at a bank in breach of its banking licence terms, attempting to hold to account the probity of others. And what on earth is governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, Patrick Honohan doing about breaches that appear to be permitted for at least seven months and are still ongoing"
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