Results 2,741-2,760 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (10 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Yes.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (10 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Is Mr. Carswell familiar with the testimony given by Professor Honohan to the committee?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (10 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Is Mr. Carswell familiar with the fact that Professor Honohan corrected the evidence and then published it?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (10 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Has Mr. Carswell any view on that?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (10 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Does Mr. Carswell have a view on why?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (10 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: So you were just surprised.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (10 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Okay. That is it.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I thank Professor Farrell for being here. The issues highlighted by him had an impact on the crisis, as Deputy Doherty stated at the outset. The Chairman might have a problem with the framing of this question but I will try anyway.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: At the risk of angering committee members, given Professor Farrell's research and the issues he has highlighted in terms of the weakness of Parliament, is it correct or incorrect to say we live in a dictatorship disguised as a democracy?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Are there examples throughout the world? Would it be correct or incorrect to say that parliaments, as things stand, are subservient to the Cabinet of the day?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Are there examples throughout the world where, following a general election, alternates are run with candidates and when parliament elects the government that the government of the day steps outside parliament and is replaced by alternates, thus having to sell their policy to the parliament, even their former party colleagues, so to speak? Are there examples of that and, if so, can Professor...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Alternates, is that how that works? Is it that alternates run in parallel?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Does that help to improve the situation?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Following on form Deputy Eoghan Murphy's questions, in those circumstances would there be a relaxed Whip situation?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: In his paper, "External Shocks, Leadership Replacement and Party Change - The Case of Fianna Fáil", Professor Farrell was very critical of PR-STV as a method of election. He said: "PR-STV reflects the diktats of the Irish political culture." Why, in his opening statement, did Professor Farrell make no reference to that? Will he comment on what the better system may be?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: That is what it was called. To clarify for the Chair, I will consult my notes. There may be some additional note. It may have related to Fianna Fáil. It was titled: "External Shocks, Leadership Replacement and Party Change - The Case of Fianna Fáil". Does that ring a bell?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: That is fine. It does exist so-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Does the ambulance chasing become more elitist?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Does it change the lane of the ambulance so that only certain people get into it?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: As I am running out of time, I have a final question which is in two parts. Has the stripping of power from local authority members in the past decade to 15 years contributed to a lack of focus by parliamentary members on important national matters, such as preventing crises, or the bank crisis or has it been a good thing? Considering - I am quoting Professor Farrell's own testimony - "the...