Banks inquiry won’t reveal the full story

THAT was a wonderful piece of straight talking by your columnist Fergus Finlay (‘Government might as well move its entire business behind closed doors,’ January 19).

We can be sure the Government will use every means possible to obfuscate and confuse over the issue of a public banking inquiry, no doubt eventually resorting to citing every legal impediment, and so on.

There is no way the public will be allowed to see the stripped-naked relationship among banks, Fianna Fáil and developers. Alas, Joe Public doesn’t have the resources legally to challenge the excuses the Government will trot out, and more’s the pity.