Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 September 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Mr. Tom Browne:
The corporate culture of the bank was very much ... you know, it was a very inclusive bank. It was a, you know, ... it was a very from the, kind of, top-down in terms of, the bank was very much on the one-way street in terms of what it was doing. It was very focused in terms of what it actually ... it did. You know, the board was very aware of, actually, kind of ... the actual ... the issues around the ongoing activities of the bank, no matter what area of the bank, and any ... and there was always encouragement to actually ... to flag any issue of concern to the board early, and that was very much the mindset, you know, within ... across the board table, that if there was a concern, if there was an issue, bring it up earlier and make the board aware of it.
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