Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 February 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Context Phase

Professor John FitzGerald:

The Department was grumpy in its comments on that. One can get its comments under freedom of information. It was not that helpful. The Department was upset with a report we did for it in 2006 on investment priorities which said its plans for investment were way too ambitious and it should take money out of the economy. The Department was cross that we published that. There is a reference in the comments to us revisiting that where it was said to us, "Get over it; you were wrong on that". I do not have the comments in front of me-----