4 The Central Bank of Ireland has been processing applications for authorisations of new entities or the  expansion of activities by existing entities. It is imperative that firms that have not yet activated Brexit plans do so as soon as possible, given the limited time window before the end of March and the importance of having valid authorisations for all scenarios.
At the same time, the influence of monetary policy on the return on savings is overestimated. For one, the real return is what primarily feeds savings in an economy. In the long term, the real return is mainly defined by production potential.