Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 10 June 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Ms Mary O'Dea:
We had seen what had happened in the past. Part of the reason the regulator was set up with a consumer mandate was that we had seen serious consumer issues where there were no powers to act against it. So we were determined to bring in something that there would be powers to act against it. And in fact, the consumer ... the regulator had only just been set up in 2003-----