Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 December 2014
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Context Phase
2:00 am
Mr. Rob Wright:
Yes, if I was in the Department at that time. I made this comment generally. If I had to come over from the Canadian Department to the Irish Department, yes. Of the people who came up through that system, maybe there was some built in complacency in that process. I do not know. However, of course I would have. I would have provided written advice on the risks and had a team tracking those risks over that period. I would have made sure that advice was not just from me personally. In Canada, they do not see our advice, but they know it exists. It is not Rob Wright's advice. When I was a deputy Minister for Finance, I was a very strong economist because I was relying on an entire Department that supported me. I would have made sure that advice had a broad base of support within the Department. Everyone who knew that advice would be using any engagement that they had to reinforce it.
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