Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 21 February 2017

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

Banking Sector in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed)

4:00 pm

Mr. Padraic Kissane:

I do not know the process for selection. I am almost back to my ombudsman days again of 100% no satisfaction or 100% satisfaction. Rest assured, the independent review panel does not give us an easy appeal. It questions everything, as it should. There is a proper and fair examination of the issue. However, the other panel has truly failed. With the exception of one applicant, who told me that she was tired of the process, accepted it and closed it, every other case is going forward either to the courts or to the ombudsman. I find it truly astonishing that I am being told I am wrong again and again.