Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 July 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Mr. Paul Gallagher:
Well, I think that was ... well, no, I think it was really the political matter. The countries were very ... and you have seen one of the reasons it took 'til 2013 for the single supervisory mechanism was that countries were reluctant to pass over the supervision of their financial system to an EU body, the ECB. And secondly, with regard to the resolution, there was very serious political concern. So I think it was known but I'm not sure there was the willingness to address it and I think that there may have been a failure of imagination because I don't believe that people really envisaged the sort of situation that did in fact arise here and throughout Europe and the United States in September 2008.
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