Financial Services Consultative Panels

Two consultative panels - one for consumer issues and one for industry issues - will advice IFSRA, the financial regulator, on policy in their own areas and commenting as requested on its policy plans.

Consumer Panel

The members of the consumer panel are: Mr Brendan Burgess (chair), askaboutmoney.com founder; Ms Frances Byrne, director, One Parent Exchange and Network; Ms Olive Byrne, hospice worker and housewife; Mr Liam Coen, newsagent and farmer; Mr Michael Connolly, consultant; Mr Eddie Hobbs, finance spokesperson, Consumers' Association; Ms Anne Hogan, teacher and housewife; Mr Michael Kilcoyne, chair, Consumers' Association; Ms Eileen Lynch, housewife; Mr John Maher, lecturer in accounting and finance, Waterford Institute of Technology; Ms Joan Morrison, former chair, Consumers' Association; Mr David McWilliams, journalist and economist; Prof Noel Mulcahy, former executive vice-president, University of Limerick; Ms Ann Owens, housewife and student; Mr Raymond O'Rourke, consumer lawyer; Mr Seán O'Sullivan, company director; Ms Aileen Power, journalist; Ms Fiona Reynolds, solicitor; Mr Peter Ryan, retired industry executive; and Mr William Ryan, company director.

Industry Panel

Members of the industry panel are: Mr James Deeny (chair), former country manager, HSBC; Mr Jim Bardon, former director-general, Irish Bankers' Federation; Mr Liam Carberry, broker; Mr Denis Casey, Irish Life Retail chief executive; Mr Tony Culley, associate director, Allianz Insurance; Mr Billy Doyle, chief executive, Credit Union Development Association; Mr Pat Farrell, director-general, Irish Bankers' Federation; Ms Ann Fitzgerald, secretary- general of the Irish Association of Investment Managers; Mr Donal Fitzgibbon, former bank manager; Ms Sarah Goodard, chief executive, Dublin International Management and Insurance Assoc; Mr Tom Healy, chief executive, Irish Stock Exchange; Mr John Murphy, head of group regulatory risk and compliance, Bank of Ireland; Ms Carmel O'Connor, partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers; Ms Aileen O'Donoghue, director, Financial Services Ireland; Mr John O'Halloran, head of legal and secretariat, Irish League of Credit Unions; Mr Pat O'Sullivan, secretary, Irish Mortgage Council; Mr Gary Palmer, Dublin Funds Industry Association chief executive; Ms Rachel Panagiodis, Hansard Europe chief executive; Mr Mike Ryan, Merrill Lynch Capital Markets managing director; and Mr Robert Moynihan, partner, Irish Regulatory Training & Consulting.