Results 4,501-4,520 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: But can you keep the warnings 'til I'm finished asking my questions because it's nothing to do with what I am doing?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Do you share Enda Kenny's criticisms of benchmarking?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Finally two questions and I'll put them both at once and they are ... the first one is to both of you and the last one is just for the Tánaiste. Were either of you any of the beneficiaries of hospitality from developers, including, as per questioning earlier, transportation or lifts or flights or helicopters or anything like that? And if it emerged that other Opposition leaders, for...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: The second question then is, Tánaiste, had you a hand in altering the configuration of this committee? Did you support it and why was it so important for the Government to have a majority on this inquiry? Thank you.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: But you must judge these things. I can only ask the question. Are you ... were you a recipient of hospitality from the developers in all its known guises, including transportation, because we specifically honed in on that with other witnesses, and it's a matter for your judgment as to how you answer that?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I'm not going to put words in your mouth.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: That's good actually, that's good. So your opinion then of anybody else who might have been recipients of hospitality? Are you going to tell me?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: -----your opinion of the leader of Fianna Fáil or the leader of Fine Gael or the leader of Sinn Féin or whoever?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Do you think it would be appropriate?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Oh, yes, okay. Now, Tánaiste, over to yourself.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Do you think talent skips a generation as well, by the way, just so we can have that on the record?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Ah yes.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: So now we've all got it out of our systems, can we get down to the answering of the questions?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Have you, first of all, been the recipient of any hospitality, in all its guises, including transportation to and from matches with good or bad builders or where talent skips a generation or not, as Deputy Rabbitte so eloquently put it?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Never?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: And to the best of - I got the answer, yes - so to the best of your knowledge then, can you tell us if other party leaders were involved in this kind of thing? What is your view of that? Would that concern you? Do you think it's appropriate? If it was a coalition partner, for example, would that concern you at all?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I'm speculating on nothing.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I'm speculating on nothing.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: No, I've asked for a view.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: If this were the case, what's the situation?