When Brendan met Ray!

[Howitzer]

So do we get declarations of the personal shareholdings of George Lee, David Murphy, Dermot Jewell, Anne Fitzgerald, the Financial Regulator, any politician before they speak?

It depends if they're reporting facts or giving opinion/advice. Politicians do have to make an annual declaration of all their financial interests, including shareholdings.

 

[LDFerguson]

It depends if they're reporting facts or giving opinion/advice.

That's the point - regardless of what they're talking about on RTE, nobody makes a declaration of their personal shareholdings prior to speaking, regardless of whether they're reporting facts or offering advice. Whether they should or shouldn't is debatable. They just don't get the opportunity.

Politicians do have to make an annual declaration of all their financial interests, including shareholdings.

Yes, but you don't hear them making declarations every time they speak about shares on radio or TV. Brendan's personal shareholding in AIB is also public domain information. As he has said himself, he doesn't own through nominee accounts to cloak his identity.

 

[Howitzer]

I notice all posts in the Banking Meltdown thread now have an enforced share disclosure policy

http://www.askaboutmoney.com/showthread.php?t=93231

That's the context and response I was referring to.

 

[LDFerguson]

Just caught the very end. Did Brendan make clear his personal ?

(Link is a year old and doesn't provide exact figures beyond stating that he is one of a number of investors with shares worth, at the time, over E1 Million)

All I gathered from the post interview chat was that it was about the security of Irish banks and peoples deposits within them, rather than being any kind of investment advice, but I think in the current environment absolute transparency with regards to the banking sector is a necessity.

I thought from this post that you were expecting Brendan to make a declaration on the RTE television interview.