Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 28 January 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Context Phase
Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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Professor Kane mentioned that Anglo Irish Bank should have been nationalised earlier. I appreciate, as Professor Kane stated, that he is not a scholar of the banking crisis in Ireland. However, can he explain the difference between nationalising Anglo Irish Bank, which has at this point imposed losses in the region of €30 billion on taxpayers, and guaranteeing it? What difference would this have made?