Results 4,461-4,480 of 4,810 for speaker:Liam Twomey
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Green Paper on Capital Markets Union: Discussion (31 Mar 2015)
Liam Twomey: I thank Mr. Lardner and now call on Mr. Frank O'Dwyer to address the joint committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Green Paper on Capital Markets Union: Discussion (31 Mar 2015)
Liam Twomey: Each witness may give his own comments on that, as concisely as possible.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Green Paper on Capital Markets Union: Discussion (31 Mar 2015)
Liam Twomey: As there are a couple of minutes left, is there a short question and answer that we can include?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Green Paper on Capital Markets Union: Discussion (31 Mar 2015)
Liam Twomey: It needs to be sharp if Deputy Donnelly wants answers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Green Paper on Capital Markets Union: Discussion (31 Mar 2015)
Liam Twomey: Who would like to take the question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Green Paper on Capital Markets Union: Discussion (31 Mar 2015)
Liam Twomey: I thank Mr. Purtill. As we have finished this session, I thank the witnesses for attending. The issue will be important in the future and it is vital that they get the opportunity to put their opinions on the record. As our members are also members of the banking inquiry, if the meeting goes on a bit, unfortunately, they will not be able to attend, but everyone will get access to the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Green Paper on Capital Markets Union: Discussion (31 Mar 2015)
Liam Twomey: We now turn to scrutiny of COM (2015) 63 - Green Paper on building a capital markets union. I welcome Mr. Peter Brown, lecturer at the Institute of Investing & Financial Trading, and Dr. Constantin Gurdgiev, an economist at Trinity College Dublin. The format of this session will be the same as the previous one. Mr. Brown and Dr. Gurdgiev will make opening remarks, which will be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Green Paper on Capital Markets Union: Discussion (31 Mar 2015)
Liam Twomey: I thank Dr. Gurdgiev.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Green Paper on Capital Markets Union: Discussion (31 Mar 2015)
Liam Twomey: Before you answer that question, there is a theme coming through from the debate. Irish SMEs are small, family owned and not big corporations. As was pointed out, what is classified as an SME in Germany would be considered a large company in Ireland. How adaptable is this model? Are we stuck with the bank financing model because that is just the structure of our SMEs or is it possible...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Green Paper on Capital Markets Union: Discussion (31 Mar 2015)
Liam Twomey: Mr. Brown and Deputy Donnelly made the point that we try to grow companies and sell them as soon as possible, but there is a problem with growing a company in Ireland. One reaches a certain point and it is very hard to grow the company beyond that point because of access to capital and to expertise. Is it cultural or is it because the system is set up that way?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Green Paper on Capital Markets Union: Discussion (31 Mar 2015)
Liam Twomey: Ms Regina Breheny, the director general of the Irish Venture Capital Association?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Green Paper on Capital Markets Union: Discussion (31 Mar 2015)
Liam Twomey: Deputy, can you ask the witnesses to answer you?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Green Paper on Capital Markets Union: Discussion (31 Mar 2015)
Liam Twomey: Securitisation was a dirty word only a few years ago as it was thought to have contributed to what happened to the world economy but it is creeping back into the conversation around CMU.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Green Paper on Capital Markets Union: Discussion (31 Mar 2015)
Liam Twomey: We have to finish this session as we were supposed to start another at 5 p.m.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Green Paper on Capital Markets Union: Discussion (31 Mar 2015)
Liam Twomey: No. This slot has finished as we have new witnesses coming in. I thank the witnesses for attending. It was excellent stuff and it will help us in our deliberations.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Green Paper on Capital Markets Union: Discussion (31 Mar 2015)
Liam Twomey: My apologies Mr. Carrigan the committee must suspend, there is a vote in the Dáil. We will resume immediately after the vote. Thank you.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Green Paper on Capital Markets Union: Discussion (31 Mar 2015)
Liam Twomey: Yes.
- Residential Mortgage Interest Rates: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Apr 2015)
Liam Twomey: The Government has moved the economy from crisis to recovery. With political stability, it has contributed greatly to the economic stability that we now see. The last tracker mortgages were issued in Ireland in 2008, and half of all mortgages today are tracker mortgages. A tracker mortgage gives the borrower a really welcome respite. The banks themselves admit, and the figures that Deputy...
- Residential Mortgage Interest Rates: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Apr 2015)
Liam Twomey: The Deputy must conclude.
- Residential Mortgage Interest Rates: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Apr 2015)
Liam Twomey: The Deputy will have to conclude as he is well over time.