Results 2,421-2,440 of 4,414 for speaker:Sean Barrett
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (4 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: When Dr. Bacon was engaged in work on this subject in the 1998-2000 period, were things like loan-to-value or loan-to-income part of his deliberations or did he concern himself mostly with supply-side issues?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (4 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: What about loan-to-value?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (4 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: The graph of house prices shows that events arising from Dr. Bacon's report caused the market to go down but then we just resumed and it kept on increasing at the same rate until the collapse.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (4 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: Were there financial forces and practices, such as weak regulation, which meant that whatever what we did the 2008 collapse was inevitable?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (4 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: Can Dr. Bacon expand?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (4 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: What should the Central Bank have been doing at that period?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (4 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: Given where we are now, what should the Bacon report No. 4 contain?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (4 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: I welcome Professor Ahearne. Will he refresh my memory in regard to his time in the Minister's office? When did he join and when did he leave?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (4 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: When was the hard landing seminar in the Central Bank held?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (4 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: Who attended the seminar and what was the reaction when the professor gave the "hard landing" finding?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (4 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: The finding in the Wright report is that there was far too little economic expertise around. He estimated that approximately only 7% of senior people in the Department of Finance had qualifications at master's level or above. He compared that to 60% in Canada and 40% in the Netherlands. Did Professor Ahearne find that a problem when he went to work in the Department in March 2009?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (4 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: Did we understand the full implications of euro membership?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (4 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: Did we understand the implications of the savings and loans collapse in the United States, given what happened to building societies and financial institutions here?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (4 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: Did economists working in banks ever relay any fears to Professor Ahearne that the bank they were working in might go down the tubes? Did they see it coming or discuss it?
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: I raised the issue of requirements in subjects to enter universities two days ago and I have some updates on those. There are proposals to remove mathematics and languages as entry requirements, and my correspondence indicates these are gathering pace. Discussions are taking place in the University of Limerick and in UCC this week. It is reported that UCD is totally in favour of the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: Both are excellent. The Labour Party took a stand against the British Airways IAG takeover of Aer Lingus. Its members are looking after the interests of the workers. We in this House have an interest in the development of this country. Aer Lingus, in generating 11 million passengers for a population of 4 million people, is doing four times better than British Airways in generating 38...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: I welcome the statement of Mr. David Begg that he does not support the sale of Aer Lingus. I invite other current or recent directors of Aer Lingus to follow his good example. I served with him on the National Economic and Social Council and he always puts the national interest first. I have asked the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission to examine the anti-competitive aspect of...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (10 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: I welcome Mr. Carswell and echo what Senator D'Arcy said about the book. Did Mr. Carswell cover the McDonough report on financial regulation and the hostile reaction to it by the Central Bank?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (10 Mar 2015)
Sean Barrett: Might that have led to some of the problems that Mr. Carswell has been describing to Senator D'Arcy?