Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 June 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Photo of John Paul PhelanJohn Paul Phelan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Well, he was discussing how he had been involved in the production of some country reports, particularly OECD reports, and there's just one quote - and this is my final question that I want to put to you - from him, from the transcript, from Tom O'Connell. He said:

... we would be discussing or interacting with the IMF and the OECD, in particular with the OECD country reports, it was embarrassing. When I used to go to Paris to ... with people to look at the reports, almost every line was parsed, and any, anything of a negative nature needed to be taken out.

Is that your experience of how these reports would be-----

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