Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 June 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Professor Patrick Honohan:
No ... well ... I didn't really want to imply that. I wanted to imply that the ... there are certain activities which were crisis-related activities which I rolled up my sleeve at and got very much involved in and now the environment is different and I could roll up the sleeves even further or wear different sleeves and start a new period of time. And maybe I wouldn't be as good, I don't know if I'm any good, but I'm not sure I'd be playing to my strengths, put it like that, in the newer environment. So, that ... I would do my best. The newer environment would be where, you know, for example, Deputy Higgins is saying what about making sure we know everything about the non-banking decisions and so forth and that's very detailed work and meticulous and, you know.
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