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- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: That is fair enough.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Bringing us up to 2006, then, the Department of Finance commissioned the investment priorities report. In that, you were worried about the over-ambitious national development plan and a series of consequences for the economy. You already mentioned the over-inflated building sector. This was all reported in the media. You said, I think, that the Department of Finance was both upset and...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: How was this unhappiness with this in 2006 conveyed to the ESRI, this unhappiness at senior levels?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Coming up then into 2008, you spoke about the relationship with the Department being frosty prior to the guarantee. Did 2006 damage that relationship? Was there a chilling effect then, potentially, on the work of the ESRI?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: How was that relationship frosty in 2008?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: So am I then right in thinking it was frosty on both sides? The ESRI had a particular view of the Department of Finance and the Department had a particular view of the ESRI.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: When it gets to 2008 and the medium-term review, is there a sense of either fatigue in the ESRI, given that previous medium-term reviews maybe had not been regarded as you hoped, or is there an attempt to rebuild a relationship there?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Just to clarify that, you spoke earlier about this editorial conversation that would have taken place before publication, in which you did discuss perhaps mentioning the banks, but decided not to.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: I would like to clarify three points Professor FitzGerald made this morning.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: In his opening statement, Professor FitzGerald said, "The dangers the economy faced as a result of the over-inflation of house prices, the build-up of debt and the loss of competitiveness in the economy were foreseeable and [as set out in the appendix] foreseen." The appendix contains the implications for fiscal policy of the analysis in the ESRI quarterly economic commentary and the...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: When the warnings were conveyed to the Department of Finance, the work of the person reporting on Professor FitzGerald's reports was amended internally so that it was not conveyed appropriately to senior level.
- Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Minister of State for bringing the Bill before the House. When we discuss commercial rates and local property tax, it is important that we also discuss where the money is going and how it being spent. People with businesses pay a lot of money on rates in Dublin city, and they often wonder where it goes. One initiative I have tried to pursue for the past number of years is tax...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme Eligibility (17 Feb 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: 452. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has had an opportunity to review correspondence (details supplied) regarding section 6 of her Department's circular 48/2014. [6911/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (18 Feb 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: 128. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding heads 10 and 11 of the Children and Family Relationships Bill 2014, in view of certain concerns (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7398/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Citizenship Applications (18 Feb 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: 190. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if uniform standards are applied, in all cases and in all consulates, in relation to delays to citizenship applications and regarding requirements for birth certificates for those seeking Irish citizenship (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7359/15]
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: In the course of your surveillance of Ireland between 2001 and 2007, did you pay attention to academic articles that were published, work by the ESRI or media articles?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: So the Commission would pay attention to reports by the ESRI - its medium-term reviews and quarterly economic commentaries?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Would the Commission respond to those? For example, the 2005 medium-term review from the ESRI mentioned a lot of problems in the economy that we had talked about in 2001, would the Commission take a view on a report such as that coming from a country?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: When you made those visits to Ireland - to speak with John FitzGerald of the ESRI, for example - did such people convey any warnings or serious concerns they had about the economy at the time, in the period from 2005 to 2007?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Were you asked by the ESRI to intervene with the Government in relation to fiscal policy?