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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (11 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 91. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the development of new flood defensive measures for Donnycarney, Dublin, and the Coast Road at Clontarf, Dublin 3. [22832/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (11 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 156. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an ear, nose and throat appointment in Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal. [22732/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Supply Contamination (11 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 211. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the lead pipes in St. Anne's in Raheny, Dublin 5 will be replaced. [22833/15]

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Go raibh maith agat a Chathaoirligh agus fáilte roimh an tUasal O'Reilly. Can I ask you, in relation to, and it's been touched on already, in terms of the statutory objectives of the Financial Regulator, was the promotion of the financial services industry in Ireland ... can I ask how did the Financial Regulator's office reconcile the objective with its prudential role as regulator?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Was there a two ... two-track regulator system in place, one for the financial IFSC firms?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Okay. Can you clarify the "a kind of a policy"? Was there a policy within the Financial Regulator, at the time, that sectoral limits were being abandoned as a result of the monoline firms within the Irish financial services centre?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Sorry, Mr. O'Reilly, I want your perspective. As Financial Regulator, from-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Sorry, just let me finish.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: From the period that you were Financial Regulator did sectoral limits exist or not, is the first question, to be clear? And then the second thing is, did you apply those sectoral limits to all institutions, including institutions in the Irish Financial Services Centre?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Did they exist, first, is my first question. Did sectoral limits exist when you were Financial Regulator? When you took over in 2003, did sectoral limits exist?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: So they existed?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Okay. Did you apply them?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: But if somebody breached them you would write to them, flagging up that you've breached the guidelines?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Okay. And did you write ... did you write to firms within the Irish Financial Services Centre to ... on all occasions, if there were occasions, where they breached those guidelines as well?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Okay. You've told me that there was no two-tier regulatory system, we're correct?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: You told me that ... concentration limits existed when you were in 2003, but now you're telling me that they only existed for domestic banks and not for the IFSC-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: So that seems to me that there is a two-tier regulatory approach here.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: We're well aware of that; we understand.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: So there was, okay in that sense there was a two-tier system. How much of your time was spent promoting Ireland's financial services sector proportionately?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: On your monthly hours that you put in, would it be 5%, 10%, 20%, less, more?