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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (28 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: 250%?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (28 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: We are moving up on to ten minutes so.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (28 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I'll just allow him a bit of time then I'll bring you back to your questions. Mr. Neary.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (28 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: We'll come back to that. Maybe, Mr. Neary, if I could ask you, whilst we're on the issue of the Financial Regulator, how much of your time as Financial Regulator was spent promoting Ireland's financial services sector? It's very much part of the same question Senator D'Arcy was asking you there.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (28 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Was there a potential or was there potential for conflict in that regard, Mr. Neary, that we were inviting in overseas financial institutions into the Irish market and, at the same time, in need to robustly monitor and regulate the existing services in the country?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (28 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Because that objective was removed by the Central Bank reform Act in 2010, and is it or was it your view that this change ... do you have a view on this change in the statutory remit of the office? Do you think that was a good or a bad thing?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (28 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Back to yourself, Senator.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (28 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Well, I will, indeed. If we get through the questions, we will, indeed.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (28 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Final question, Senator.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (28 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: No, Senator, you-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (28 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: No, Senator, I took some of your questions actually. That's what I done.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (28 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: No, no, no, no, sorry, Mr. Neary-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (28 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Mr. Neary, come to the Chair, please. Sorry, Senator, I'll be bringing you back in, because you've time at the end of the session.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (28 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: It was ... it was dealt with yesterday afternoon in the inquiry, so I can give you some guidance on that.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (28 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: In a general ... in a general matter you certainly can Mr. Neary.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (28 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Final question now-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (28 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I'll just give you a little bit more time on this, Deputy, but I'll bring you back in at the end of questioning as well-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (28 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you very much Deputy McGrath and I'll be inviting you back in later again this session. There's just a couple of matters I want to deal with before we take a break for coffee, Mr. Neary. And I'm just going to bring a document up on the screen there. It's from the evidence book, Vol. 1 pages 43 to 50. Basically, it's the memorandum of understanding that establishes the kind of ground...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (28 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: -----and what should be dealt with by the bank?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (28 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: The memorandum of understanding is not a section 33AK document. It's a document that's in the public domain as I understand it-----