Inquiry must look at role of politics

By Fintan O’Toole (for the Irish Times)

Paranoia is generally the most sane response to anything our rulers do. So, after all the leaks about the Government’s intentions to hold a banking inquiry in secret, my immediate reaction is to demand a public parliamentary inquiry. Thinking more coldly about it, however, I reluctantly concluded that such an inquiry would be essentially useless.

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