Results 18,481-18,500 of 26,148 for speaker:Kieran O'Donnell
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: This is important.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: If the profitability on routes over the five years was questionable, what view would Mr. Walsh take?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: But Mr. Walsh would offer them on another route?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Walsh referred to Shannon Airport, but I refer, in particular, to transatlantic routes which are very important to the mid-west in terms of business and tourism. As mentioned, the summer flights to Boston and New York are profitable. It is a year-round service. What commitment would Mr. Walsh give on operating year-round transatlantic flights from Shannon Airport?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: On Shannon and the year-round flights, Mr. Walsh spoke specifically about the transatlantic.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Would Mr. Walsh be giving a commitment because we have such a large business sector depending on it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is Mr. Walsh giving a commitment to maintaining a year-round transatlantic service out of Shannon?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Can Mr. Walsh envisage any situation whereby the large capacity that Shannon Airport has-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: In terms of hubbing, in some regional flights for the transatlantic routes out of Shannon-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Can Mr. Walsh envisage-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: This is very important.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Can Mr. Walsh envisage any situation where IAG would be hubbing Shannon Airport to Dublin Airport for the transatlantic flights and we would lose our direct-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome Professor FitzGerald. He said the cost of producing the medium-term review is €250,000. Am I correct?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Who would fund that?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: It is effectively funded by the Government.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Taking up that theme, in his presentation, Professor FitzGerald spoke about a tumour. He used the analogy of a tumour in respect of how the property market and the banking sector had spread throughout the economy. How did such a tumour go undetected by the ESRI on the basis that it produced reports for the Department of Finance in 2003 on the national development plan, where it was very...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Yet you-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: The ESRI is an independent body that does not occupy a political world. Why with all these winds in the air in terms of inflows of funds from US banks for the Irish banking sector and the property bubble that were highlighted independently on a myriad of occasions, did the ESRI baulk in the 2008 report-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: I withdraw the comment. Objectively, why does the 2008 report read as if things were normal and we were in for a soft landing? Why does one not get that sense of impending danger in terms of the property market and the fiscal situation for Ireland? If the ESRI is independent and was highlighting all these issues that came up in the media in terms of comments made by Professor FitzGerald's...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Based on Professor FitzGerald's mistake, what was the fundamental issue in a situation where property prices were falling, there was the whole issue of the sub-prime market in the US and those funds were flowing into Irish banks as well? What was the basis for his decision, given he now honestly admits he made a mistake in the 2008 medium-term report?