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TDS AND SENATORS on the banking inquiry will have all their electronic devices confiscated prior to viewing the draft report into the financial crisis.
The 11 members of the Oireachtas banking inquiry are due to get first sight of the draft report from next Monday.
But members have been informed they will not be allowed bring any electronic equipment with them. It means TDs and Senators will be checked that they do not have devices such as iPhones, iPads, and laptops on their person.
Inquiry sources pointed out that while this may prevent ‘live’ leaking as they view the draft report, members will still theoretically be able to make notes from their viewing of the report and leak selectively.
One source pointed out that it has always been the case that electronics are confiscated when inquiry members visit the committee’s secretariat at its offices in Agriculture House on Kildare Street.
The committee is chaired by Labour’s Ciarán Lynch. It’s membership includes Fine Gael TDs Eoghan Murphy, John Paul-Phelan and Kieran O’Donnell. Representing the opposition are Fianna Fáil’s Micheal McGrath, Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty and Socialist Joe Higgins.
The committee also includes senators Susan O’Keeffe (Labour), Micheal Darcy (Fine Gael), Seán Barrett (independent) and Marc MacSharry (Fianna Fáil).
The committee has been finalising the detail of its report since it concluded public hearings in early September having heard from 128 witnesses over 49 days’ of sittings.
This included hearing evidence from former taoisigh Bertie Ahern and Brian Cowen as well as several former and current senior bankers during hours of public sessions.
On top of this the committee sat for hours and hours of private meetings deep in the bowels of Leinster House.
The committee is now working on its report into the banking crisis. It is due to be finalised towards the end of this month and published on 19 January.
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Nice misleading hashtag. Should be #normalprocedure
That’s the journal these days I’m afraid
Taken from them.
Are they sitting on their shoulders, their heads perhaps ?
*arses
Their heads are so far up their own arises that they’re back on their shoulders.
“On top of this the committee sat for hours and hours of private meetings deep in the bowels of Leinster House.”
Deep in the bowels?
Sounds like Leo Varadkar and David Norris might have been throwing a party…….. I’ll grab me coat…
Well most of them are full of $hit so where else would they be?
Ah sure isn’t trust a wonderful thing!! :-)
What is they try to smuggle in a device?
I say give them the rubber glove treatment just to be sure.
yes, and let them look deep in the bowels.
They are not allowed devices to the viewing in case they may be tempted to take pictures of sections of the report and ‘Tweet’ or post to Farcebook and let us(who paid for this farce) see anything of a damning nature.
But they’ll be able to buy new ones with the generous fees they pay themselves for appearing on this farce of an enquiry.
Err…they’ll only be taken off them for the viewing of the report and then given back when they leave.
Correction, no they won’t, that would be highly irresponsible waste of money. They’ll use their 700 euro mobile phone allowance instead.
700 euros that would be a lot better off spend by financially crippled people all over the country but instead will go to these useless morons while they let other people make up for their horrendous mistakes. They can say its the peoples fault and they are democratically elected politicians but that arguement goes out the window when they get elected on false promises and then decide to do something totally different after they get elected.
Every water protester has an iPhone and an iPad !! Very comman
Porn and betting lol.
In fairness Ciarán Lynch looks well fed. Must be good to be a TD….
Dead right. I wouldn’t trust them!
Maybe a stupid question….why do they need iPhone s and Ipads?
Because otherwise they would fall asleep?
Candy crush and angry birds.
Checking out the brothels in Brussels?
Why does it say only some tds instead of all of em at the enquiry.
I like my leaks to fully quote rather than paraphrase…….so inaccurate these days.
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