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- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Thanks, Cathaoirleach, and just to say, that was 12 minutes. I have five questions that I wish to ask.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: And the first four of those only require a "Yes" or "No" answer. They're all for you, Taoiseach, and the last one might require a little bit further. I'd ask for the indulgence of the Chair. Can I ask you, Taoiseach, "Yes" or "No", that in your pre-budget considerations, commentary, proposals or, indeed, manifestos in the relevant period, did you ever propose expenditure cuts and tax increases?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Can you give examples of that for us?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: No, no. I'm talking about the relevant period.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: In the run-in to the election in 2007-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: -----Taoiseach?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: In what?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Okay. And what portion of the €17.4 billion increase in current expenditure outlined in the Fine Gael manifesto? How could you say that that constitutes a proposed decrease in expenditure, Taoiseach?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: You were proposing the reduction of tax to 18%-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: -----how could that be constituted as an increase in taxation?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: No, but it's just I've watched an element of, you know, political manoeuvring over the last number of questions and I just want to get specifically to the facts.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: But just not in the manifesto?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Okay, I'll move on there. Taoiseach, how is it credible for you and your colleagues, with clean hands, to criticise the previous Government on expenditure and taxation, when you called for more expenditure and less taxation? I mean, how is this credible? I mean, would your policies of the day not have led to an even harder landing in the crisis?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: No, "Yes" or "No"? I'd like it again, because I mustn't have been listening.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Thanks, Chairman.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: As my colleague has said earlier, and he's outlined for you that those particular measures would have been a couple of billion. Nevertheless, your manifesto, policy and all of your line spokespeople and shadow Ministers of the day were calling for more expenditure and less taxation in all those Private Members' motions on animal health and all those vital issues of the time, nothing on...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: -----to a harder landing?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: "Yes" or "No"?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: No, they wouldn't? That's fine. Given your criticisms about the social and recreational contacts between previous Governments and developers, the Galway tent which we have spoken so much about in here and so on, can you inform the committee if you have ever accepted hospitality from a developer in the form of transport by road or air?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I'll ask the question again. Did you ever accept hospitality from a developer in the form of transport by road or air?