Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 May 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Patrick Neary:

In relation to the prudential ...the prudential area, I think it was a matter of conflicting priorities and resources. And the ... the ... and it's not ... it's not an excuse because it worked in other departments of the regulator. But the ... the administrative sanctions regime was quite a demanding structure to put in place because it had to be ... it had to, you know, be absolutely fair in all its proceedings and procedures and arrangements and it could have been contested all the way up, I think, to the court, at the end of the day. So it had to be very fair and it had to be very judicious and there had to rules and all the rest of it. So, it was a big job of work.

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