Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 26 February 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Context Phase

Mr. David McWilliams:

I went on "Prime Time". Now just think of what happened. Lehman's had gone bust and the Americans had tried to let a bank go bust and ring-fence it - this idea that one can amputate the leg - but what had actually happened was the opposite. Not only did it not stop the crisis-----