Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 4 March 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

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Photo of Sean BarrettSean Barrett (Independent) | Oireachtas source

The finding in the Wright report is that there was far too little economic expertise around. He estimated that approximately only 7% of senior people in the Department of Finance had qualifications at master's level or above. He compared that to 60% in Canada and 40% in the Netherlands. Did Professor Ahearne find that a problem when he went to work in the Department in March 2009?

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