Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 June 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Tom Considine:

I was in the sense ... if you go back to my paper of ... of February 2005, I mean, that is really based on competitiveness. The whole thing is about competitiveness. What can we afford in Ireland? And government is a cost, government is a cost, just as sure as anything else is a cost.