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- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Just to come back to one of Senator MacSharry’s questions on the changes to lobbying and donations legislation which have been made from learning from the crisis? Excluding the cultural and leadership aspects, is it too soon to tell if we have done enough with the law around donations and lobbying?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Does Dr. Byrne believe that the way to combat this perception is to do this?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Should undisclosed private donations from an individual be allowed to continue?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Does Dr. Byrne think the limits could be lower?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Does Dr. Byrne think corporate donations should be completely illegal?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Should there be concentration limits on which sectors can donate to political parties?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: In terms of the relationship between the party and the individual, Dr. Byrne referred to a movement towards more donations to the individual politician rather than the party. Will she comment further on that and what the implications of that might be?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Earlier, Dr. Byrne talked about corruption being sexy. It can be on TV. In Ireland, is our threshold for accepting unethical or improper behaviour in politicians higher or lower than in other countries, for example the UK? I will cite the Andrew Mitchell "Plebgate" incident which was a resignation issue there. Do we have a higher or lower threshold when it comes to those kinds of...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Should there be sanctions?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: I have three questions. The first is following on from Deputy Higgins. Did Mr. McDonald find this presumption in favour of development among officials as well? What relationship does our development-led planning process have to that?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Is it Mr. McDonald's understanding that the investigations that were to take place, the external investigations into certain councils, were to look into that kind of behaviour?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Where does Mr McDonald believe that unwillingness came from?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: The system just in itself was not willing to investigate itself.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Who has responsibility for ensuring that light is thrown on the system when it needs to be?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: My second question is in relation to Mr. McDonald's opening statement in which he talks about no effort being made to enforce the anti-sprawl guidelines.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Exactly. Would there have been competing pressures from other interested groups not to enforce those guidelines?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: For example, from a residents' association or from a body like An Taisce.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: My final question is intended to get Mr. McDonald's opinion on something because it is something I am trying to think through myself. In Mr. McDonald's opinion is there an ethical difference between a councillor taking money to vote a certain way and a Minister or a Government party introducing a tax incentive after receiving donations from someone who will then benefit from it?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: I thank Mr. McDonald.
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Irish Red Cross Governance (24 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: 397. To ask the Minister for Defence to set out his views on suspending the grant aid paid to the Irish Red Cross in view of renewed governance concerns in the organisation; if the grant will be suspended; and if he is satisfied with the internal operations of the organisation, and its commitment to reforming its own governance procedures. [11091/15]