Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 January 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Context Phase

Photo of Ciarán LynchCiarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)
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To use the professor's motorway and traffic analogies, crises have two aspects: the crash and the emergency services that come afterwards. There is the structure of the emergency services and the behaviour, obedience to, or ignoring of, the rules of the road, that caused the crash.

Can he elaborate on what he calls the “seat-of-the-pants” policy making at the height of the crisis?