Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 December 2014

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Context Phase

2:50 am

Photo of Sean BarrettSean Barrett (Independent)
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Thank you. We appreciate it. I would like to repeat a quote that the Chairman read recently:


The CB was not powerless; it had the right to direct the activities of the FR and it could advise the Government. There are, however, no records of such direction or advice or even efforts at such.
Were there any board members in the Central Bank who held the view, which might be shared by Mr. Nyberg and me, that they should have fulfilled those roles? Did Mr. Nyberg find any evidence that people would respond to the-----