@IrishPrisonServiceWhistleBlower

PART 2/2 WHEN QUALIFIED EXPERTISE THREATENS…… 🔹I am the daughter of a taxi driver & worked for every qualification I earned and every professional position I achieved. Nothing was handed to me through a legal or other “connection”. 🔹I qualified as a solicitor in Ireland & also practised New York & English law. I spent more than twenty years practising international banking, derivatives and capital markets law, including working within major international banks. 🔹I was subsequently recruited as an Expert Adviser to the Irish Banking Inquiry, with responsibilities that included examining the conduct of the Central Bank of Ireland leading up to and beyond the banking crisis. 🔹And what happened when I sought to exercise that expertise? 🔹The Central Bank’s own General Counsel warned me that I should agree all my questions in advance. Read that again. 🔹I found this interjection intimidating & later it was described by Senan Allen in his “Review” as inappropriate, highly irregular & “he oughtn’t to have done it”. 🔹The Allen Report characterised my assessment that @centralbank_ie sought special treatment as “simply preposterous”. 🔹An independent expert is appointed to a parliamentary inquiry examining the circumstances of Ireland’s banking collapse & was being told by the regulator’s General Counsel to pre-agree her questions. [Note I was excluded within the Inquiry from investigating banks due to previous senior in-house roles as Head of Legal of Bank of Ireland Global Markets & Lead Counsel of GE Financial Markets]. 🔹Since when does an institution under scrutiny in an Inquiry get to influence the questions asked by those investigating it & more importantly why did @centralbank_ie require that scrutiny? 🔹I regarded this as a deeply troubling indication of the influence of vested institutional interests over an inquiry supposedly established to uncover the truth. 🔹I subsequently made protected disclosures - supported by colleagues - concerning serious deficiencies in the Inquiry, including inappropriate conflicts of interest, the withholding of crucial documentation & immense pressure to proceed without experts having reviewed essential evidence. 🔹Three of my disclosures were substantiated by late 2015. It is now openly stated & recognised that bankers hoodwinked the Inquiry. 🔹Yet my independent expertise, painstakingly acquired over decades, did not protect me from the devastating professional and personal consequences that followed. 🔹My qualifications were apparently sufficient for the State to recruit me. But my expertise was considerably less welcome when I challenged powerful institutions. 🔹And therein lies the extraordinary irony of Patrick Geoghegan’s lecture about elitism. 🔹A woman with zero legal or professional connections spends decades acquiring qualifications & specialist expertise, only to encounter resistance when along with several colleagues - she exercises a level of independent scrutiny of Ireland’s banking regulator. 🔹Meanwhile, politicians such as Harris & Varadkar - whose records raise serious questions about competence governance and accountability are defended by people who have themselves enjoyed privileged access to political power. 🔹I have no objection to politicians or others without university degrees, however, I object to double standards. 🔹The real elitism is a system in which political, legal & other connections appear to count for more than independent expertise, professional integrity and accountability. 🔹Perhaps Professor Geoghegan might turn his attention to that. @Wftproof @WinkSabee @TransparencyTF @kenoflynnTD @JMcGuinnessTD @johnmcdonnellMP @premnsikka @ArturNadol7566 @stevemiddi1 @BankConfidenti1 @LSRAIreland @NiamhParker4 @SamanthaLaDuc

🔹The scandal of the weaponisation of litigation against me is on a par with the publication of the fabricated Senan Allen Report that was faithfully reported across mainstream media via invented media statements emanating from @OireachtasNews - @rtenews @IrishTimes @Independent_ie @irishexaminer 🔹Morally bankrupt lawyers involved with undisclosed conflicts. All paid for by the public purse - some now sitting in adjudication over the cases of the fraud victims. 🔹Complete inaction by @HMcEntee re retaliation & threats to investigate my private life going back 12 years prior to Banking Inquiry, with McEntee then blocking me on X with no explanation. 🔹Complete inaction by @GardaTraffic re unlawful surveillance stating that I had “no monetary loss”. What happened to a family’s peace of mind? 🔹Expression of empathy from the Department of Justice in relation to my valid concerns about the relentless enforcement of invalid debts in Irish courts. It carries on. 🔹One of Ireland’s darkest long chapters - for bank & regulatory whistleblowers & for those overcharged & engineered into default to repair the concealed & seriously impaired bank balance sheets. 🔹Our Supreme Court’s pronouncement in 2015 - that the illegal loans (extended to the Quinn family to prop up the insolvent Anglo) - were enforceable….served as insight into what Ireland had & would become. 🔹Current AG was correct - the dogs on the street knew that Quinn / Anglo / IBRC is & not was - the greatest corporate scandal in Irish history.