Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 July 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Photo of Joe HigginsJoe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)
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Yes. On the other hand then, Mr. Gallagher, you said it wasn't a legal or constitutional impediment. You had these other considerations and pressure from Europe. But what was your reflection on putting a €64 billion burden of bad bank debts onto the shoulders of the Irish people, taxpayers and the consequences of austerity and so forth that flow from that?