It amazes me that there’s no problem in finding money for inquiry after inquiry but have no money for other things. They’d be better off spending a few bob building a new wing onto a prison to imprison the likes of Drumm and Fitzpatrick etc. Inquiries are glorified talking talking shops for politicians. They’d be better off focusing their energy on bringing the country forward out of this never ending recession.

In civilised countries the police investigate crime!

the public doesn’t trust politicians to get this right. a criminal investigation is needed to determine, it’s not rocket science

Ah sure have a referendum about holding an inquiry into having a tribunal. DPP get up off your arse(s) & arrest these swindlers end of.

I get a terrible sense of deja vu when I hear proposals for tribunals and the need for even more legislation to do something very simple. The people at the top who do obvious wrong always hide behind the law whereas the people at the bottom seem to get caught all the time. But then I suppose a majority did vote down the constitutional amendment to give more power to the Dail to carry out enquiries.

In the name of god what is wrong with this country.We couldn’t organize a piss up in a brewery.Why all the stalling over this.Is it because most political partys are linked up with a builder or a ceo of a bank and they don’t want there party’s name dragged through the mud.Well here’s news for you all sitting in the dail on your over paid pension and wages.Your name is already mud.

We don’t need a banking enquiry, we need the names of the bankers who signed off on the biggest loans that are now with NAMA. Easy, shouldn’t take up any time or cost a penny!

No problem it’s called fraud squad.

About making laws to indemnify bankers pull the other one.

To be honest I don’t see the point in holding an inquiry into what went on if the inquiry cannot find people responsible. Otherwise what’s the point? Those who made mistakes or were badly advised need to be held to account. From my understanding the proposed inquiry will not be able to do that or draw conclusions so it will be a waste of time and resources.

It’s getting to the point where I can hardly bring myself to read about the shambolic machinations of our political and legal classes, but sometimes I think, that’s their plan.

The only politician that can be trusted to meaningfully investigate the banking collapse is John Mc Guinness. He would excel but that said, these enquiries cannot and do not achieve what the public is duped into believing they set out to do.
What’s needed is a proper white-collar fraud squad and Garda Commissioner with the will to take on white- collar crime and his/her political masters.
As it stands, the Fine Gael government is using its power to protect donors and so the status quo. Enda Kenny promised change but he is being propped up by a privileged unelected incompetent cabal of senior civil servants. The circus will go on and on.

So four years later, and it is now we are having this conversation? Good gravy! If it were poor people who defrauded the state of the €100 billion or whatever it will be, does anyone believe it would take even 2 months to jail the culprits? I seriously doubt it…..Golden circle circling their golden wagons of swag!

This is a stalling tactic. Political Ireland does not want an enquiry into the economic meltdown. Why? Finns F?il politicians would be found to be asleep at the wheel, Fine Gael would be guilty of well do nothing, saying nothing and following the previous government in protecting the rich. The people want justice, political big wigs want to stop it or at least delay it until the current crop have retired, by which time the economy will have recovered or people will be busy trying to get just enough money to survive that an enquiry will be the last thing they would want. Charge the lot of them bankers and the political classes and let judge and juries made up of long term unemployed decide.

@Mick Collins
Yes I did vote in favor of politicians to investigate things like the banking scandal.
But to be fair its like asking the Guards to investigate the Guards,The out come might be the right or wrong one but people won’t believe the answer as it was handled internal.So politicians investigating each other would be a wast of tax payers money.