Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Well, I obviously took the issue up immediately with the Minister for Finance and I questioned the Minister for Finance - and I have it there somewhere - you know, in detail about whether, you know, a failure of a bank, were we in a position to deal with that? How confident was he that there were no such vulnerabilities in our system? Had we the proper powers and capabilities in place? So, those questions were asked and they were, indeed, also asked of the Central Bank and the regulator. The assurances were given that they were.