Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 December 2014

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Context Phase

3:30 am

Mr. Peter Nyberg:

First, the commission of investigation was not private, it was just as official as this one. The only thing that was private was the names. Even then, the commission tried to give as full an account as possible without naming names. As I said in my introduction, and as the commission's report indicates, my feeling is that anonymity at least for us was important to get engagement and for discussing sensitive issues, ones which are very painful in many ways for those with whom we had discussions.

I would imagine that as time goes by, some people might want to have their say in public because the general discussion is not necessarily always balanced, while others might not wish to do so. The committee no doubt will discover which are which.