Buffet should head banking inquiry

Your recent editorial ‘Democracy is being demeaned’ (Irish Examiner, June 17) is to the point, and perhaps more importantly — an honest re-run of the farcical developments evolving to date in the setting up of the banking inquiry.

Fianna Fáil through its leader Micheal Martin, who it must be again (and again) emphasised was a senior member of the Government at the time of the debacle, (and others in the party) appear to want to get a ‘leg-up’ by having an extra voice on the board. Politics being what it is that’s ‘par’ for the course.

We then had (to endure) Susan O’Keeffe, the Labour senator, on the media recently almost in tears bemoaning the fact that some were unfairly accusing her of not taking her €50.000 paid role seriously. She apparently had to sit at home with her child who after all “is sitting the Leaving Certificate exam”. Again, apparently, she seems to see this as a five-star excuse for non-attendance of an important meeting on the setting up of the inquiry. She should hang her head in shame and resign from the committee forthwith. and it says a lot that she is now on the bank inquiry committee!.

Here is a suggestion: Dismantle the whole farcical make-up of the banking inquiry committee and somehow persuade the likes of Mr Warren Buffett and his team to do the job. Give them three months — I guarantee you that we would then have an accurate and concise report — and more to the point in view of the farcical shenanigans as outlined in the editorial — a non-political summing up as to ‘who did what and when’.

The ordinary people of this state are fed up to the back teeth with this ongoing political fiasco.

Kevin McCarthy

High Meadows

Gouldavoher

Limerick