Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 April 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Dermot Gleeson:

Well, the rationale of the chairman's committee was that there were sometimes things that came up, you couldn't assemble a board, the board was international. As you probably know we had two Americans at one stage, one American always, three from the United Kingdom and then two from Belfast, people around the country. So, if there was something urgent - let's say a large plc. came and said "We are going to buy a ... do an acquisition and we need €1 billion" and the capital markets fellas looked into it and said "This is fine." You couldn't get a board together and it was over the limits, so you did it for that. You also did it for things like sometimes you might need a board resolution for appointing a receiver, sort of housekeeping stuff really. And then exceptions to the large exposure policy were sent to the chairman's committee as well.

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