Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

There are sub-committees, as the Deputy well described for us, and under this scheme we have powers to send persons to attend all their meetings.

Deputy Durkan asked a number of questions which, I must confess, I could not quite fathom. The regulator is recruiting 30 additional staff to assist him in the intensive supervision of the financial sector.

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