Lynch: ‘Balanced and fair’ banking inquiry

Common sense should be applied when using comments of the past to measure any bias of TDs and senators who will sit on the committee carrying out the banking inquiry, according to its chairman, Labour’s Ciarán Lynch.

Mr Lynch was responding after the broadcast of a Dáil speech he made in January 2010 in which he said the crisis was “caused by Fianna Fáil’s governance of the economy and the policy decisions it made over the past decade.”

The 2010 speech, which Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin said demonstrated Mr Lynch “giving a fixed opinion on the banking crisis” was played on RTÉ’s The Week in Politics.