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- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: No, no, no, I'm only asking.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I'm only asking.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Did you read any?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Okay, last question, and thank you, Mr. Considine. Can you tell me, from the best of your recollection, and bearing in mind that you didn't read all the submissions that came in, but obviously you liaised with your staff who did, could you put a very rough estimate, to the nearest hundred even, of the number of submissions that would have come in from any organisation, TD or political party...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: No, well I'm asking you to-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I'm asking you, in your experience, to answer the question.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: And that's what we're here to do.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Would you say there were any?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Okay.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Thank you.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Thanks. Thanks, Mr. Doyle, for being here. Can I ask ... the Central Bank financial stability reports were flagging risks to the financial system as early as September 2004, and what action, if any, was taken by the Department of Finance in response to these reports?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: You did work in the Department at that stage, did you?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Have you a view, while we have you here?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: You did mention that, in fairness, earlier on. But I suppose what I want to get at here-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: So in 2004 ... sorry, after 2004 and the IMF and the OECD and ECOFIN and various bodies were recommending tighter fiscal stance, and you spoke a little bit about that, would you have a view, in terms of your own opinion of the Central Bank's recommendations to the Minister that they weren't more forceful at that time, is there any view you'd like to give on that?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: And yourself. you used to-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: You were a director of the ... you sat on the board of the Central Bank for the period that you were secretary?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: From the middle of 2006 on. And there were six members of that board that were also on the board of the regulator; isn't that correct?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: And would you have been aware at all that in the period up to your tenure and the time that you would have finished up as director general ... as Secretary General that no action was ever taken by the regulator or the Central Bank following any prudential regulatory breach by a financial institution?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Yes.