Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 11 June 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Mr. Brian Patterson:
With hindsight, no. And I think what's specifically missing, as I indicated earlier, is any experience of financial regulation, per se. Because of the ... well, excuse me, I included in my five the two executives, Liam O'Reilly and Mary O'Dea, both of who would've had, obviously, regulatory experience. But none of the non-executives had regulatory experience. There were people from the financial services industry - one banker, one from the insurance sector - who knew about the financial services sector but they had never been ... experience as being a regulator.
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