Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 29 April 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Mr. Michael Buckley:
No, but it applied ... it applied generally around the world and it is ... was really about introducing the sort of huge piece of legislation of, I don't know, 800 pages or something like that. But essentially, it introduced a whole lot of extremely detailed sign-off processes at all levels in a, for instance, a banking organisation, to get to the point where the board of directors would sign off the accounts to make as sure as possible that the accounts were representative of the state of the business. So it was a whole new panoply, if you like, of sign offs and cross sign offs, and all that sort of thing.
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