Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 February 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Context Phase
Professor John FitzGerald:
It was a technical issue where we brought academic expertise into how one constructs an index, in the late 1990s as far as I can remember. They provided the data - it gave us access to data we would not have had access to and the quid pro quowas a joint product. A significant amount of research was done using those data.