Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 June 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Ms Mary O'Dea:

Well, I wasn't directly involved in proposing the resources on the prudential side. The way the process worked was that I consulted with my team in the consumer area and we figured out what was the appropriate resources that we needed, pay and non-pay, to do the job. There was a similar exercise done in the prudential area. And then we proposed those resources to the budget committee at the time. Now, my interactions, if you like, with the budget committee in terms of resources, I do recall that the prudential area were looking for more staff. I do recall that, at some stage, it could have been around 2007-2008, it was a significant amount of staff, and I remember when we went to the budget committee to discuss that large increase in staff. And I think there was a couple of issues, as I recall it, going on with the budget committee. That, while they had no objection per seto additional staff in the supervision area, that they wanted to be convinced that there couldn't be efficiencies gained from the organisations. For example, in relation to IT or shared services-----

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