Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 February 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Context Phase
Professor John FitzGerald:
No. It was a nervous Nellie in the Department of Finance. The Department of Finance is interesting. The fact that we were suggesting raising corporation tax was not a problem for the Department. The normal people who dealt with us in the Department would view that as the normal call of the ESRI. It was somebody in the Department of Finance in a different section who did not normally deal with us and it should have been ignored.