Results 4,421-4,440 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: No. I'm merely asking the question. Have you ever? So it's a "Yes or "No", I think.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I presume it does. I don't know. You tell me. Did you travel with developers? Did you travel with developers-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Did they give you lifts?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Did they bring you on planes?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: So is the answer "No" or "Yes"? I mean, it's a simple question, Chairman?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: The basis for the question is, and we've been consistent, Taoiseach ... and I'm sure your advisers can tell you that we've asked these kinds of questions of everybody of a political nature in here, from all parties and none. So I'll ask the question again. Have you ever accepted any hospitality from a developer by way, as you put it yourself, a lift in a car, a flight on a plane, a lift on...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: No, I'm asking the questions, Taoiseach.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Okay, I appreciate and note the legal advice. Having said that, Taoiseach, I'm putting the question the same way. "Yes" or "No", the affirmative or the positive, have you ever accepted hospitality from a developer by way of transport, by road or air?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Chairman?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Chairman?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I mean, the question is ridiculous?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Surely, I can have the protection of the Chair and of the legal advisers to the committee?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Thank you.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: We'll move on. I've two further questions. Taoiseach, isn't it true that, from the outset, that you have potentially endangered the integrity of this inquiry by loaded comments about "the axis of collusion between Fianna Fáil and the banks?"
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Okay. Final question. Why did you change the configuration of the original committee when the Government did not secure a majority?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Did you contact the leader of the Senate from the United States, where you were on a trip at the time, and say to him, "Take MacSharry out"?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Yes, and just very finally, can I ask, that in that context, did people in Fine Gael and Government parties, other than Senators, prescribe what was to happen in that process-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: -----such as yourself, for example?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Nine, and then you made it 11, yes. Why was that?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: All right.