Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 February 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Context Phase

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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I will move on, but Professor Walsh has said, "accounting numbers became powerful disciplinary tools in constructing the norm and punishing the deviant". How are accounting numbers a powerful tool in constructing the norm? Do they set the agenda of what is normal or not? Would Professor Walsh like more time?