Results 3,561-3,580 of 4,168 for speaker:Susan O'Keeffe
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Would you have been able, Mr. Mulryan, to ring them up if you wanted to ask them something? Because, you know, some people don't know politicians on that level and some people do.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: No. Never?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Okay. I know that, obviously, what your business now, we're not really discussing but I ... but you have recently been in China with Mr. Ahern, isn't that right? Well, relatively recently, I'm sorry. In the last number of years.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Did you know, or have any relationship with, Mr. Brian Cowen, again the former Taoiseach and former Minister for Finance?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: And so again, obviously, you'd invite him to various events?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: So, obviously, the reason I'm asking, Mr. Mulryan, is that a lot has been written about developers and politicians and their relationship and, you know, many people in the country don't have a relationship with politicians at all and they wonder how it happens that developers become close and, of course, I think it's fair to say you were also in the Galway tent. Is that right?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Yes. So would you have had a similar relationship with politicians across all the parties or was it just these politicians that we've spoken of?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Would you invite as many of them to your ... in the same way as the three that we've discussed?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Do you believe that that allowed you any advantage, that relationship that you had with them, or not?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Did you ever calculate, Mr. Mulryan, how much the various tax breaks and incentives ... did you ever make a calculation as to how much they might have benefited you, or did they benefit you?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Urban renewal schemes and-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Nothing at all?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Well, that's, I mean-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Okay. Just to be clear again, in relation to the donations that you gave to various political parties - and thank you for listing them in your response - they were ... just to make sure, they were contributions made by your business, by Ballymore, is that correct?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Is that correct? Would you ... did you ever, as Mr. Mulryan, make donations yourself personally?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Okay. When you were dealing with Irish banks, again, in that, you know, the sort of ... I suppose, now 1999 say up to 2005 and so on, did you get any impression from them that they were in the pursuit of market share, or did you find that they behaved as they had always done, or was there any change apparent in the way they behaved, either with you or perhaps with other developers or...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: How was that clear Mr. Mulryan? How did you know that?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Can you recall at any point when you said in your head "It's gone to another stage"? Was there a moment, it may not have been a defining moment but-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Of course.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: So, to put it in the vernacular, it sort of became a free for all, where everybody thought they might make money too.