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Everyone’s talking about…
Jean Claude Trichet will be in Dublin today, where he’ll face questions from the banking inquiry.
The former European Central Bank (ECB) president won’t be making his way to Leinster House, however, as the banking committee goes on a tour of sorts.
Trichet will answer questions from committee members after a lecture at the Institute of International and European Affairs at the Royal Hospital in Kilmainham at 2.30pm.
He was in charge of the ECB when Ireland introduced the bank guarantee and entered the Troika’s bailout programme.
Committee members will have two 45-minute sessions in which to question Trichet.
Speaking on Morning Ireland, Labour Senator Susan O’Keeffe said the situation wasn’t ideal but noted that members were happy a compromise had been reached, as this approach was better than nothing and the committee didn’t want “to cut of its nose to spite its face”.
Trichet will no doubt be asked why taxpayers had to repay bondholders owed money by some Irish banks which were being liquidated.
This is a significant day for the inquiry, but whether or not Trichet will say anything new remains to be seen.
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He already has the questions he is going to be asked, he requested this before he agreed, stay tuned for long drawn out replies that don’t touch on any of the facts
“Jean-Claude Trichet is not attending the Banking Inquiry – so instead members will be in the audience of a lecture he is delivering in Dublin.”
From this article…… http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/tds-must-attend-trichet-lecture-to-ask-banking-inquiry-questions-675041.html
In the audience!…… Jeez, talk about treating the Bank Inquiry with contempt.
What sicken’s me more is members of the Banking Inquiry agreeing to this insult!.
It fine – he will be extradited and rot in an Irish Prison for the insult he has shown the Irish people …that or we will start playing the game like the british – James Bond and his licence ……
The Gardai should be arresting him forthwith –
Breach of Article 5 of the constitution Gardaí – if ye don’t know ….
Unaccountablity .. Full stop .
Will he f**k! More likely to ask Enda why he hasn’t made German an official language yet like he was told.
He will be asked hard questions like do u like your scones hot or cold? With butter or without? With currans or plain?
If only. Has the government forgotten what went on here?
This is just a complete Pantomime, it’s just short of Shane Ross shouting ‘Oh, look he’s behind you!’, as ‘tricky’ Trichet enters the stage and replies – ‘Oh no, I’m not!!’
It’s a joke and Trichet is totally disrespectful to the Irish nation and making a mockery of the banking inquiry, although Enda Kenny managed to make mockery of the inquiry before it even started by appointing his cronies to ensure the balance power is in FG’s favour.
we all know it was a scam , every single person in the country knows it was a scam , except the politicians and the media…….looks a like duck , walks like a duck……it’s a FU******* duck
No . of course not. Why would you explain the con.
He will in his hole, why should he?
He won.
he’s being ‘interrogated’ at 2.30pm but has demanded to see all questions beforehand.. Flies in the face of the word ‘enquiry’ doesn’t it?? Will be interesting how he explains away the letter sent to Mr Lenihan.
Something like – extraordinary situation blah blah, required extraordinary measures blah blah, brave Irish people lick lick, look how well you’re doing now zzz zzz, now where’s the slap up dinner, board flight, in his own head ‘silly pixie heads’.
The end.
I bet we’re covering his expenses too.!!!!
Never trust a guy with white collars/cuffs on a different coloured shirt!
I’ve read many a pearl of wisdom but that’s up there with the best Reg.
Shit, I’ve just realised I have a white collar and cuffs on a purple shirt! Tell me I’m not one of them!!
Georóid – you burn it, we never speak of it again. Now go my friend, go like the wind.
Trilateral commission head Jean Paul Trichet.
You should put the logo of that organisation in the article, interestingly its a circular ’666′ motif.
Apt.
The truth will set you free
Look at the fangs in his head ….
No.
The only thing that would catch these charlatans out is their own arrogance that they can do whatever they want.
Hopefully he blags out the truth – that they told the govt to put the banks losses on the Irish taxpayer purely because they could, and knew every govt politician would roll over when they told them to.
Ok so once again,we as a so called sovereign state nation are dancing attendance on a non democratically elected banker. For him to tell us that there was no alternative, that in the overall scheme of things we are but dirt on the sole of the euro shoe. The eu system is rotten to core. Designed to favour the centre states at the expense of the periphery.
Hahahahahahaha. You guys crack me up. It’s a no brainier. He will in his hole.
Sieg heil Herr Trichet Enda cant wait to bow and scrape when you arrive and dont worry you wont have to answer any hard questions….
He will appear in white robes and apologise to the Irish people and commit harikiri.
And pig’s will fly
When our political system, over the past 20 years has been full of spineless, gutless, incompetent selfers, who act like nodding dogs when conversing with their European masters we were always going to be paying
Oh I bet he’s shittin his pants at the prospect of all the really difficult questions he’ll have to face
Would a simple phone call not have revealed as much “transparency “as this futile exercise,would have been cheaper anyway
They are only doing it to make themselves look like they are doing something, when in reality it is just a waste of time and money.
even the IMF condemned his actions. Pot black and all that but it makes it clear that there is dissent within the troika camp. Ajai Chopra last week had this to say about the ECB and its actions back then
“The letters actually pressed Ireland to do fiscal consolidation, it pressed them to undertake vague structural reforms without specifying what these were, and that, in my view, is an outrageous overreach by a central bank”
If this snake uses the phrase moral hazard even once today he should not be allowed out of the country with his head intact. He has done irreparable damage to European financial markets that we will still be suffering from in 50 years with the moral hazard he created, yet he still sees no irony in throwing the phrase around.
The government you elected that approved the bank guarantee got you into the hole the country is in not the EU.
EU & ECB are not synonymous. I didn’t mention Ireland in my post, I said he has destroyed European financial markets. There’s a lot more important things in this world that Irish party politics or the finances of sparely populated islands, but it seems you struggle to see beyond these relatively minor issues.
You said “We” I presume you mean Ireland! Foolish if you believe 10s of billions of bank debt this sparsely populated island has to pay back is minor.
Is’nt it reassuring that we Irish people have the ability to laugh at ourselves,because the rest of Europe and possibly further afield are in knots as soon as they cast a glimpse this direction
Will he f(_)ck!
He will if we get the thumb screws out , but that’s the only way he will talk , 7 years on and no one can give a straight answer as to why we had to bail out anglo the builders bank which should have been allowed to fail , I can see the rationale for helping the other banks with the impact their failure would have had on Joe public but anglo was a largely commercial bank and cost us the most .
“Trichet will no doubt be asked why taxpayers had to repay bondholders” – I don’t remember electing this guy??!
it’s a shame we gave up our independence so easily, and all for a motorway, some suits, and some help fishing our own waters.
We’d probably get more answers from Jean-Claude Van Damme.
How nice of Jean Claude Trichet to agree to meet with some of the commission. European accountability in action.
Don’t upset the man as he may get up and go out and join his buddies for a few drinks and small talk.Its a given,that he won’t be taking the blame for the devastating economic collapse here,he’ll reserve that for Ireland itself !!!!!
no he will give us long winded answers with no substance, bit like enda.
Unlike what the headline suggests the people of ireland have a decent understanding of why it was done. One of the creators of the euro itself explained back in 2012 that this was unjust and would have profound repercussions on whatever country did it.
We have Nobel prize winners telling us austerity will always fail then we’ve Edna Kenny the school teacher giving out treats for 5 more years.
No, he won’t. He may however give the committee a good finger wagging.
I see Joan Burton is missing in action nowhere to be seen in the Dáil – too afraid to take leaders questions in case Siteserve rears its ugly head?
Mind you it is still a better sight than her ugly head to be looking at,
And just as i type this, the house has been suspended for 5 mins, after only kicking off 10 mins ago – What a shambles of a democracy our country has become.
Better chance of finding out the third secret of Fatima
A dark day for Ireland was the day that spawn of the devil got control of the EU. Founding Fascist Father.
Anybody know what time the ceremonial kissing of Jean-Claude’s feet by Michael Noonan is on at?
And,will it be taking place beside a working ATM?
Le Tw@t.
Why did the journal remove my post about Michael noonan saying the promissory note being illegal on pat Kenny.
Is censorship going on. Very strange since this is an article about banking enquiry.http://www.rte.ie/radio/radioplayer/rteradiowebpage.html#rii=9%3A10107485%3A133%3A08%2D02%2D2013%3A&type=radio
My apologies to the journal. It was not removed. Still up on article to do with banking enquiry.
No this man will spin he’s way back to Brussels… He has had the questions given in advance so they can spin, I’d say there will be so much spin he may even get air Bourne. …..
Who will ask the Taximan’s question?
He wasn’t the one that approved the bank guarantee. The government the Irish people elected made that mistake. Ireland Fuked up, the people, banks and government you must pay for that.
Sent a letter forcing us to ask for the bailout didn’t he? Also made some remarks about bombs exploding in Dublin if we didn’t do as we were told I believe?
Very naive to put the blame on the ordinary Joe Soaps. The people were not the ones telling the regulator to take his foot off the peddle – that was down to Mary Harney, if my economics lecturer is correct, nor were the people the ones creating Government policies, nor were they the ones pushing the banks into competition with one another to generate greater profits. The very ones who were responsible though have walked away with their gold-plated pensions.
The people played it’s part in the mess too. Nobody was forced to sign 100% mortgages. Paying ridiculous prices for apartments and houses. Fuelling the bubble. Deluded if you don’t agree with that!
absolute waste of time…….our country was THREATENED and our government fell for it ……I say FU**** Trichet and his goons……get an arrest warrant !!!
I think Irish people are asleep on this topic. Can’t understand why unsecured bondholders would get their money back and irish people for generation’s will have to pay this back. And they talk about the economy coming around.
Yes market’s do come around. However we own 200 billion. Seems like a big joke to me.
Seize his passport once he’s on Irish soil to see if he commits a crime against Irish people. He’s best known for his corruption because he defends rich people against poor.
Jeeeaaaaaan Claude Trichet !! What a w#nker ! what a w#nker !
He looks like resuscitated corpse.
All hail the hypno-toad
So we could save the world, SuperIreland
One word. (NO).
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