Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 July 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2015
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 18 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
Finance Accounts 2015
9:00 am
Ms Ann Nolan:
We would not bail out a vulture fund. We only bailed out the banks because the Irish people had deposits in those banks and if we had not bailed them out the Irish people would have been at a loss. Perhaps, even more importantly, Irish businesses needed the banking system to keep working so they could keep working.