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Updated: 12.38
THE FORMER HEAD of the Department of Finance has hit back at Alan Dukes over the Siteserv deal.
John Moran issued a statement today after former Fine Gael leader turned IBRC chairman Dukes made critical remarks about him in a press conference yesterday.
Dukes said that Moran, in a private conversation, expressed a wish join the IBRC board shortly after becoming secretary general at the Department.
He said that at one stage Moran wanted to appoint two further directors to the bank and “seemed to believe that all he needed to do was tell the Central Bank that it was okay to appoint these two people and that they would be on the board”.
When asked if the deterioration in the relationship between the department and IBRC could be traced back to Moran’s appointment, Dukes said:
It definitely took a turn for the complicated at that point.
Moran, who has been out of the country all week, said that Dukes’ comments represented “pre-crisis mindset”. He said that civil servants had “been asking the right questions”.
I would simply add at this stage that I find it regrettable and a step back to pre-crisis mind sets among bank management that what seems to have been happening today are personal attacks on civil servants asking the right questions who were representing after all the new shareholders of those banks, the taxpayers.
It might have been better to have the time available used to deal with the substance of the issues raised by both the Department and other public representatives.
I shall be happy to answer any other important issues after reading the transcripts or at the upcoming inquiry into the management of IBRC if more appropriate.
Speaking on RTÉ’s The Business today, Dukes said that some in the Department saw Anglo Irish Bank as “the enemy” after the nationalisation of the bank.
‘Overly arrogant’
Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin also criticised Dukes, saying he was “overly arrogant in terms of his dismissive attitude to our public servants in the department of finance”
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Mcdonalds is always there for me too. Unfortunately for my waist!!
I hate McDonald’s and yet I find their double cheeseburgers annoyingly addictive…
#Jimmy
Mar tá siad lá le siúrce agus cimicí chun go mbeidh tú tugtha dóibh.
Gaeltan,
Perché si rispondere a un commento in una lingua diversa ? è rozzo
Is maith liom sceallóga agus ispíní.
Eh?
Breaking News: James Franco worked in McDonald’s. Bad day at the office Journal?
I know the feeling James, mc Donald’s has often taken me out of a hole too.
Ironic, mackers has taken the hole out of me more than once.
Silly boy.
To be fair it reads a bit like james got a few dollars for reading that script!
McDonald’s where even the salads are unhealthy.
Pure manure!!
Terrible actor, brutal Director and an even worse artist… one guy that should have never given up the day job…
What have you done lately?
Let’s put this to bed once and for all…Big Mac or Whopper??
Neither.
Big Mac on its own or a Whopper if you whack a few BK onion rings into it! Now thats me darza!!
The double cheeseburger for €2
Often emptied my hole!!
Caroline did?
She always was dirty.
Ask the lads…..
Yeah, Cal is well known………
A “full Irish breakfast” is far more dangerous to your waistline than anything served up in McDonalds.
Anyway,why pick on McDonalds?
ALL restaurants serve up fattening foods.
Ever wondered what’s in that “Nouveau Cusine” they serve up in upmarket restaurants?
At least McDonalds is spotlessly clean and hygienic.
Unlike a lot of other “greasy spoon” dumps you see on the high street.
And a LOT cleaner and hygienic than most Irish kitchens I have seen.
McDonalds sells happiness. I’d have it every other month but never as my main meal of the day.
Large chicken legend meal, salsa, no bacon, with coke. That’s the one and only meal I eat at McDonalds and I’d happily eat it everyday if I could get away with it. Add chicken nuggets and its €10 exactly.
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