Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 June 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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Yes, but that ... that ... that's what I want you to explain to me because I get a sense that you applied the same principles-based regulation, but you just applied them more intrusively. There was ... you didn't ... you didn't have to change any rules, you didn't have to have a change of documents, you just actually decided to send investigators into the banks, which were always the power within principles-based regulation and asked for more reports and asked for more documents. Is that not the case that there was no real change to the type of the regulation, it's just how you applied the type of regulation?