Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 March 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Context Phase

Photo of Susan O'KeeffeSusan O'Keeffe (Labour)
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When Professor Edward Kane gave evidence before the committee, he described the financial system - in the way it interacts with the political system - as being elitist as a result of the fact that bankers are treated as high priests of a sort because they make the elites happy.