Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 December 2014

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Context Phase

4:25 am

Mr. Rob Wright:

I am not aware of those relationships so I cannot make a judgment on that.

In terms of whether some people in the Department were more aware of the observations on an inappropriate fiscal policy, the Department itself had been advising more restraint over a period of ten years, so it would not have been a secret to anyone in the Department that it was a big issue. I cannot identify individuals from the chart we just examined on page 22; some people knew more than others. There was a body of view but that was not the nature of our business.