Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 July 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Ahern, in an interview in the Sunday Independentin July 2007 you stated that your main message was that people should not allow themselves to be convinced by the merchants of doom and that the Irish economy was in trouble or that the good times were over. And we also know at the ICTU conference, unfortunately you talked about sitting on the sidelines ... people sitting on the sidelines cribbing and moaning and you unfortunately said, "I don't know how people who engage in that don't commit suicide." The reason I raise this, Mr. Ahern, is how do you reconcile that with your witness statement, with the fact that as the crisis was starting to emerge, it appears that you were quite willing to confront rather than engage with alternative views, yet your witness statement talks about listening and responding to proposals and criticisms?

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