Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 26 February 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Context Phase

Mr. David McWilliams:

Yes, I believe it definitely had. As I said at the start, the guarantee, the bailout, all of these issues are the consequence of the pathetic policy from 2000 to 2008. The outcome was foreseen and certain. It was simply a matter of how bad it was going to be. That was really the question that was revealed over the course of the subsequent few years.