Calls for taoisigh to face televised inquiry

BRIAN COWEN and Bertie Ahern should be summoned before a televised Oireachtas inquiry to explain their role in the banking crisis, Government politicians have said.

Green Party senator Dan Boyle said it was right that the Taoiseach appear before such a probe to explain decisions he made as Finance Minister because “questions have to be asked”.

Mr Boyle compared the situation to Britain, where former prime minister Tony Blair is to appear before an inquiry into the Iraq war.