Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 1 July 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source
Yes. I'm just trying to explore whether this is a conflict that still can have detrimental effects because it was suggested by witnesses that one reason for so-called light-touch regulation was that there was a reluctance to be tough on Irish banks, for example, in relation to the extent of property lending, over-lending, etc., because that would make then the Irish Financial Services Centre and the foreign banks that were there look like an offshore account. Isn't there still that contradiction there then?
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