Two Oireachtas bank inquiry members unlikely to sign off report

Only nine of the 11 members of the €5m Oireachtas banking inquiry look set to sign off on the final report, because of objections with its contents.

Socialist member Joe Higgins and Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty are both understood to have insurmountable difficulties with the tone, content, and direction of the truncated final report.

Following strong complaints about the original draft report, inquiry members Eoghan Murphy and Susan O’Keeffe took charge of redrafting it in a bid to salvage the inquiry.