Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 9 March 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Central Bank of Ireland: Discussion
Ms Derville Rowland:
I apologise if the Deputy got an impression of passive conduct, on my part. That does a disservice to our actions. I confirm that, in the course of this very meticulous and careful investigation, we did not form suspicion to support reports to other agencies. We have published a very detailed enforcement outcome only last week and following on that, which put the information into the public domain, we have been in contact with various agencies that I will not name. They would not wish me to do so and I will not. I absolutely intend to have a proactive discussion with a number of agencies about this, including An Garda Síochána and the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement, to sit down with them in the full facts of the information so that, from their perspective, they could consider this matter.
I want to make an observation at a general level. We are in regular and excellent contact, for example, with An Garda Síochána right across a number of issues. We find them proactive and responsive. I would like them to report of us in the same way. We are both part of the Hamilton Group, which is a group that has been put in place to make recommendations about the improvement, if I call it in my language, in white-collar crime issues with a number of recommendations about an expert advisory committee.
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