Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

-----to create alternatives to that approach. I suggest a proposal I have made previously, namely, the establishment of an Oireachtas regulatory oversight committee with the capacity to hire independent expert staff to assist it in its work. Members are in discussions on the establishment of committees and this presents an opportunity for this Dáil to establish such a committee to ensure that this House - if one goes back over the past decade or so, one will note the House rarely discussed bank regulation - will have an ongoing, systemic approach to overseeing the work of the various regulatory authorities in the different sectors of our economy.

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