Donation comments deleted from final banking inquiry report

At a meeting of the inquiry yesterday, 11 committee members considered 33 detailed submissions from so-called interested parties, and made a number of changes to the report.

Among those who made submissions were Mr O’Flynn; former Taoiseach Brian Cowen; former Department of Finance secretary general Kevin Cardiff; former president of the European Central Bank Jean- Claude Trichet; and former Central Bank governor John Hurley.

Some of the country’s leading banks, including AIB and Bank of Ireland, also made submissions seeking changes or deletions from the report.