Lenihan declines request for emergency meeting

FINANCE Minister Brian Lenihan and the Financial Regulator have declined requests to facilitate an emergency meeting of the Oireachtas finance committee on Monday.

Chairman of the committee Michael Ahern said Mr Lenihan and the regulator’s office would not be available if he called a special meeting.

He approached them yesterday at the request of the Labour Party. Mr Ahern expects both to be represented when the Oireachtas committees reconvene after January 7.