Results 2,801-2,820 of 4,168 for speaker:Susan O'Keeffe
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Okay. All right. In your statement on page 3, you say that the Department had concerns with the tools used by the Commission for measuring the cyclical stance of the budget, seeing them as inadequate. Can you tell us over what period of time did you have those concerns and if you felt, therefore, that they were inadequate, what did you do about it?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Just to be-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: So it's a work in progress.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Can you just be clear, though, over what period did you ... were they just when you arrived in that job or had those concerns been there? Like, what period of time are we talking about? Can you say? Or was it always this ad infinitum?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Given those concerns, how ... why were you happy with the effectively prudent assessment that you mentioned in your statement, if then there were inadequacies?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: But you did ... you did ... they were "effectively prudent".
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Okay ... when I think ... Deputy O'Donnell has already quoted this. On page 7 of your own statement, ''The Department had concluded that reliance on construction was becoming one of the biggest risks to economic development especially where some external shock might interact with and affect the construction sector." Now we heard from Tom Considine yesterday, who took some pains to explain...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: One last question, Chair ... again Mr. Considine when asked yesterday, we were talking about the tax breaks, the property tax breaks and he said I don't see how you could have tax incentives that wouldn't benefit high net worth individuals. We were talking about the outcome of the Goodbody report, and you've mentioned the Indecon Goodbody report. Was that ... is that your understanding?...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Yes, I appreciate that, although they were extended.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: The question was did you know?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: But to that extent, to the €6.3 billion extent?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: That was the amount that Indecon found that those tax breaks had ... the cost to the Exchequer was €6.3 billion.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Yes.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Okay. Thank you.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Thank you, Chair. Mr. McCarthy, specifically, did the Department make attempts to quantify the effects of a soft landing? That is in terms of loss of revenue or increased expenditure, was that a specific task that was carried out? I know you've referred to soft landing before that people have asked you.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Was there any argument about those calculations or were they largely-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: And that was passed obviously on to Government, to anyone who needed it?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Not surprisingly, I'd like if I might, to come back to this document again in Vol. 3, the one that has the changes. Because you've given in evidence here this morning and you've said to us that it was good to provoke thought, I think was the way that you put it, and you talked about changes being purely of a factual nature. I would draw attention then to page 12 of that document, that's...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: That was marked "delete", that was marked "delete".
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Oh it was, yes.