Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Context Phase

Dr. Julien Mercille:

If they had a poverty section they would sell more, depending on how it was covered. If it was covered in a progressive way, mentioning, for example, that this is a very unequal country, it would threaten the power structure in Ireland. Someone who is interested in maintaining the unequal structure of power here and elsewhere, and who is not irrational, will not want everybody to have all the information they want about it.