Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 November 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Banking Sector in Ireland: Permanent TSB

2:00 pm

Photo of Paul MurphyPaul Murphy (Dublin South West, Anti-Austerity Alliance)
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The fundamental point is whether it was good use of the public's money to spend more than €4 billion to keep Permanent TSB alive, as opposed to saving depositors and using those resources for society. Given the witnesses' position, they will have only one answer to that and I will not bother seeking it.