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- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)
Michael D'Arcy: It is even worse in that there is to be an open tender process for procurement and one does not know who one will get. People without any previous experience could come through a tender process.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)
Michael D'Arcy: Can I make a point? I spoke to a person who had an issue – I will not go so far as to say "disagreement" – and the term "come clean" was used on multiple occasions. I am concerned that we will have a Government agency doing good work that is required being pitted against an individual. The agency has the opportunity to go outside its own office for services.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)
Michael D'Arcy: It is "stasiesque" if I may use that term.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)
Michael D'Arcy: I am saying it.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)
Michael D'Arcy: I hear the point the Minister is making and the logic is sound with regard to media outlets trying to find out the people involved. He said he believes this is required. The Mahon tribunal has made assertions that there is more to be done on the side of SIPO, but the Mahon tribunal is historical at this stage. In the number of years since SIPO has been in place, and while I do not want to...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)
Michael D'Arcy: Yes.
- Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing (11 Apr 2017)
Michael D'Arcy: The issue I raise is an area that seems to have been left behind in the Rebuilding Ireland plan. I have gone through the plan and the affordable sector appears to have been ignored. I believe it is an important area. The problem with the rental sector is quite simple: there are too many people who are renting. A huge number of people are locked out of the market who have the capacity to...
- Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing (11 Apr 2017)
Michael D'Arcy: It goes to show that there is a major anomaly here, namely, that we have budgeted €5.35 billion for one sector while the sector immediately above it has nothing. It is a huge hole in the scheme. I am disappointed. I raised the matter before the Rebuilding Ireland programme was announced. It is an area we must revisit. In respect of the figure on the help to purchase scheme, we are...
- Brexit: Statements (Resumed) (11 Apr 2017)
Michael D'Arcy: We seem to be talking about nothing other than Brexit. Europe rather than Brexit is what we should be talking about. At some stage, we need to get sight of the fact that there are flaws in the European project. Europe is and has been very beneficial to the Continent, but it is unwieldy and certain things do not quite match up, for example, the German economy and structures compared with...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking and Financial Regulation: Discussion with Mr. Jonathan Sugarman (13 Apr 2017)
Michael D'Arcy: I thank Mr. Sugarman. He probably knows that I was a member of the banking inquiry. What two German banks did he work for prior to UniCredit?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking and Financial Regulation: Discussion with Mr. Jonathan Sugarman (13 Apr 2017)
Michael D'Arcy: Did Mr. Sugarman work for those two institutions in Dublin?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking and Financial Regulation: Discussion with Mr. Jonathan Sugarman (13 Apr 2017)
Michael D'Arcy: Mr. Sugarman worked for Hypo Real Estate, which was Depka.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking and Financial Regulation: Discussion with Mr. Jonathan Sugarman (13 Apr 2017)
Michael D'Arcy: At the time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking and Financial Regulation: Discussion with Mr. Jonathan Sugarman (13 Apr 2017)
Michael D'Arcy: Will Mr. Sugarman jog my memory, please? Depka was a German bank.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking and Financial Regulation: Discussion with Mr. Jonathan Sugarman (13 Apr 2017)
Michael D'Arcy: For how long was it wholly Irish owned?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking and Financial Regulation: Discussion with Mr. Jonathan Sugarman (13 Apr 2017)
Michael D'Arcy: I was just wondering if Mr. Sugarman knew. The banking inquiry did not investigate any of the IFSC companies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking and Financial Regulation: Discussion with Mr. Jonathan Sugarman (13 Apr 2017)
Michael D'Arcy: That was not part of our remit. We did not investigate Depfa.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking and Financial Regulation: Discussion with Mr. Jonathan Sugarman (13 Apr 2017)
Michael D'Arcy: Yes, but we did not investigate the IFSC institutions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking and Financial Regulation: Discussion with Mr. Jonathan Sugarman (13 Apr 2017)
Michael D'Arcy: Not regarding IFSC companies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking and Financial Regulation: Discussion with Mr. Jonathan Sugarman (13 Apr 2017)
Michael D'Arcy: The banks we did look at-----