Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

Financial institutions as a whole in Ireland, both domestic and those in the Irish Financial Services Centre, need highly experienced, skilled and expert people to succeed. Success must be built on a sustainable basis. Rewarding excessive and imprudent risk-taking by executives is at the heart of the serious problems that have emerged in the international financial system. For the future, sensible and long-term sustainable remuneration policies must be part and parcel of how financial institutions go about their business in Ireland.

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