Fingleton: I regret the taxpayer had to bail us out

Michael Fingleton has said he does not regret any decisions he took at the Irish Nationwide Building Society (INBS), but does regret the taxpayer had to bail out the Society at a cost of €5.4bn.

However the former Society chief said he did regret that the Society had a commercial loan book that was "at the time - too large, and as a consequence of the crash was deemed to have significant losses within that book".