Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Context Phase
Professor Philip Lane:
Right. It was in the context of him being new in the job and trying to read into the brief and that, around that time, I had written an op-ed about the slowdown and what were the fiscal issues to do with it. Partly, if we think that there is a new phase and that property revenues are going away, we need to adjust spending levels and come up with other sources of revenue. Partly, there was the difficult issue of not doing the fiscal crunch too quickly, because that could be-----
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