Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 28 May 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Mr. Patrick Neary:
What happened was ... well, there's a process - I have to describe the process briefly - that each manager of the various departments made a submission in relation to the required resources and brought them all together and then it formed part of a presentation ... of a case to the budget and remuneration committee. And I would attend that committee and it would ... usually be accompanied by both the prudential director and the consumer director when we'd be meeting the committee on these matters because obviously they had to argue the case for their ... for their resources. That year we came up with a figure for new staff of ... I think it was 77 people -70 something anyway, it was in the 70s - across the entire organisation, okay? And, certainly, the head of banking supervision was looking ... I don't remember exactly how many she was looking for but she was looking for-----
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