Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

As we have a quorum, the Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis is now resuming in public session and can I ask members and those in the public Gallery to ensure that their mobile devices are switched off.

Our focus today is on ... we begin today with session 1, public hearing with Mr. Michael Fingleton, former chief executive of the Irish Nationwide Building Society and, in doing so, I would like to welcome everyone to the public hearings of the Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis. Today, the focus of the inquiry is on Irish Nationwide Building Society and at our first session this morning, we will hear from Mr. Michael Fingleton, former INBS chief executive. A qualified chartered accountant and barrister, Michael Fingleton joined the building society in 1971 and was 38 years with the society until his retirement in 2009. Mr. Fingleton, you're very welcome before the committee this morning.