Results 2,501-2,520 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (28 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I appreciate the professor's limited knowledge of the domestic situation here. Considering the nature of the EMU, and his research writings in 2006 which were specific to the preparedness, readiness or lack of it for a banking crisis, for a small open economy like Ireland, was it possible to prevent or adequately navigate the crisis once it hit in 2008, considering what the professor wrote...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (28 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Was that because of Ireland's small size?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (28 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Was it because Ireland is less than 1% of the eurozone?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (28 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: That is interesting. In terms of the regulatory situation throughout the world, I shall give a bit of background on the Irish system. Post-2003, we had a regulator and a Central Bank that were separate but connected. Is such a model flawed? Are central banks and regulators best placed to work together on the same mission with shared information?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (28 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I think I know the professor's answer to my next query but I shall ask it in any event. In terms of international co-operation on banking regulation, and the professor talked about established norms, does it remain completely unfit for purpose?
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Over the past few days, documents have been released to Fianna Fáil under the Freedom of Information Act. Unlike the usual Government spin, laundered through public relations agencies and PR consultants, these documents make for very interesting and stark reading for the public. The documents include a letter from the Secretary General of the Tánaiste's Department to the Secretary...
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Some €700 million has been wasted.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Not particularly.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: It does not know.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: The Government is hiding information and that is a fact.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: The Leader provoked me and I had to set the record straight.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I want the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection to come in here and answer to the people.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: What would the Secretary General of the Department say?
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: The Secretary General-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: That is not the case in Leitrim, Sligo, west Cavan and Donegal. That might be the case in Waterford and some such places where the senior figures of Fine Gael and the Labour Party hail from. That is not the situation in constituencies like Senator Mooney's and mine.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: The Leader has distorted the facts.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Fine Gael is running out of road on the old 2011 election campaign. There is a new one nearly started.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I am not moaning, I am only speaking the facts.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: When is the next re-announcement of the jobs strategy?