Ladies and Gentlemen,

I'am very pleased to have the opportunity to address this, the 6th Annual Conference of Finance Dublin. I know that many of you here today work in international financial services. I was reminded the other day of what the landscape looked like down in Dublin's Docklands 15 years ago a virtual wasteland. One modern financial services building had gone up. The landlords of the second building struggled to get it let. Fifteen years on the biggest success story of the Irish economy is there - home to more than 400 international financial services companies, from every corner of the globe.