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- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Dec 2014)
Eoghan Murphy: By implication, we would be failing that test if we were not doing that.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection Forecasts (14 Jan 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: 128. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 65 of 11 December 2014 and incorporating the taxation model outlined in that question if he will provide comparisons of the tax liabilities for individual PAYE workers between the current system, as per budget 2015, and the proposed model, for the following incomes: €20,000, €30,000, €35,000,...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Statutory Instruments (14 Jan 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: 408. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address concerns regarding SI 541/2014 (details supplied). [49612/14]
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: This morning, Professor Honohan made a number of references to Lehman Brothers and I want to go back to September 2008. On page 18 of the report on the banking crisis, Professor Honohan stated:Some also still feel that, without the external shocks of September 2008, the system would have survived without imposing a cost to the Government. The report does not share this view. Why does he...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Is it a credible point of view to hold?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: I mean the idea that the system would have survived without imposing a cost to Government.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Can we reject the idea of Lehman Brothers as a catalyst?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: How important was the rejection by the US Congress of the troubled asset relief program, TARP 1 at that time?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: When Professor Honohan speaks about the idea of emergency liquidity assistance buying us time and letting us get deeper into the problem, would it have been possible, with ELA, perhaps not to remove the cost to the State but to reduce the cost if we had gone down that avenue?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Even a short period of time, such as several days to a weekend, could have helped identify the issues Professor Honohan referred to earlier, such as Anglo Irish Bank not being worth saving.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Time could have been important. Why was ELA rejected at the time?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: At that stage, had other countries contemplated a system wide guarantee? Were they both unprecedented moves?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: The blanket guarantee is what one does when one does not know what one is doing.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: In regard to Professor Honohan's knowledge of the intensive discussions that took place in September between the regulator, the Central Bank and the Department of Finance, which he wrote about in the report, does it come from interviews or documentary evidence?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: The report notes that the documentary evidence was sketchy. I am trying to ascertain if he relied more heavily on oral evidence given retrospectively.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: The report gives the impression that the meetings were under the de factoleadership of the Department of Finance and that the regulator played a less central role than might have been expected. Why was that? What was happening in the he room during these discussions?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Could we interpret it as being because confidence in them had been lost? If confidence had been lost, was sufficient expertise in the room at the time?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: When Professor Honohan mentions the Department of Finance, is he referring senior officials alone or senior officials in conjunction with the Minister or other senior politicians?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: The report concluded that eventually a broad consensus was reached that a guarantee scheme for all institutions was the best approach. There were no dissenting view in the room.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: I have a question on the financial stability reports and want to get an idea of who was in charge of that process. The Governor talks in his report about some of the warnings being toned down in those reports and of important data on overvaluing in the property sector being left out and a focus instead on criticising Morgan Kelly. What was happening there in the drafting of those reports?