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- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: The industry paid half the cost of this prudential regulation, isn't that-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: Was there push back in the industry again the, kind of, stronger regulation?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: Yes.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: You mentioned the ESRI as one of the sources. Did the banks or your federation ever approach the ESRI when they had reports on the Irish economy?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: You mentioned Kenmare. I think it's fair to say that the bank economists hardly distinguished themselves in their reaction to Professor Morgan Kelly.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: Indeed.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: But those are the bank economists you mentioned. I mean-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: The ESRI dropped the articles by independent economists after the Morgan Kelly articles were published; they were dropped from the quarterly economic review. Did banks make any representation in your knowledge to have that series of articles dropped?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: You did shut down the Irish Banking Review, where ... it was a forum where economists and bankers used to meet.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: So you didn't have a problem with contrarian views in that journal?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: Or at the ESRI?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: All right ... thank you, Chairman.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: Thanks very much, and welcome, Mr. McCarthy, at this late hour. Did you send any reply to that request directly to the centre?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: Yes. And did you know what the cost would have been had you accepted it?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: Thank you very much. Yes-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: Thank you very much. Could I look at Vol. 2 of your own book, Mr. McCarthy, on page 89? What it refers to, Chairman, is a reply to Mr. Trichet in two lines, "I wish to acknowledge receipt of your letter and enclosure of 16 October [2008] which will be brought to the Taoiseach's attention as soon as possible." And the date of that non-response, if you like, or just acknowledgement, is 30...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: Yes?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: Yes.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: Yes.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: So he did have a reply, reasonably approximate to 16 October.