Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 May 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Strategy Statement 2011-2014 and IFSC Clearing House Group: Discussion with Department of the Taoiseach

3:20 pm

Photo of Richard Boyd BarrettRichard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I have one final question. Mr. Fraser has accepted that the Clearing House Group represents high-level access for the financial services sector or the corporate sector to the Government. The statement of strategy for the Department declares that some of the Department's priorities and the Government's stated priorities are fairness, transparency and so on. Has there been any discussion within the Department about the fairness of giving this high level of access to the Department of the Taoiseach to the financial services industry but not a similar high level of access to, for example, the representatives of the disabled, the unemployed, low and middle-income workers or distressed mortgage holders?

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