Incoming data are making us more confident that the economic expansion will continue to firm and broaden. But the important question is whether the adjustment of the path of inflation towards below, but close to, 2% would continue without our expansionary monetary policy.
Sharon Donnery: Central bank risk management in a changing institutional and regulatory environment Speech by Ms Sharon Donnery, Deputy Governor (Central Banking) of the Central Bank of Ireland, at the Joint Bank of Portugal and European Central Bank Conference on "Risk Management for Central Banks", Lisbon, 26 September 2017.