Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 April 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Institute of International and European Affairs
Governance of the ECB: Past, Present and Future

Photo of Kieran O'DonnellKieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

No, before the meeting. The meeting was at 8.50 ... He came onto national ... he rang national radio, "Morning Ireland", RTE - It's a very well known radio programme, well respected - and he effectively asked to go on the airwaves and he announced ... we would appear, unbeknownst to the Irish Government that Ireland would be going into a bailout. The two questions I have: did you, as ECB governor, request that he do that? And, secondly, what view did you take after he had made that public announcement?

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