Results 741-760 of 1,974 for speaker:Arthur Spring

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (24 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: Amendments Nos. 3 to 5, inclusive, are related and will be discussed together.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (24 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: I hope the Minister will not mind if I let Deputy Michael McGrath comment again.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (24 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: Acceptance of amendment No. 16 involves the deletion of section 16. Amendments Nos. 16 and 19 are related and may be discussed together by agreement.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (24 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: Amendments Nos. 17 and 18 are related and may be discussed together by agreement.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (24 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: Amendments Nos. 20 and 32 are related and may be discussed together by agreement.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (24 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: Amendments Nos. 33 and 34 are related and will be discussed together by agreement.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (24 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: Amendments Nos. 35, 37 and 38 are related and will be discussed together by agreement.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (24 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: Amendments Nos. 40 to 42, inclusive, are related and will be discussed together.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (24 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: Amendments Nos. 45, 46 and 137 to 145, inclusive, are related to amendment No. 44 and will be discussed together.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (24 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: Amendments Nos. 47 and 48 are related and will be discussed together.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (24 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: I am advised that I cannot go back once a section has been discussed.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (24 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: I am advised that when we discuss the Title, the Deputy can raise the issue then.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (24 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: Amendments Nos. 49 to 51, inclusive, 53 to 57, inclusive, and 59 to 61, inclusive, are related and will be discussed together.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (24 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: Amendments Nos. 63 to 68, inclusive, are related and will be discussed together.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (24 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: Amendments Nos. 69 to 71, inclusive, are related and will be discussed together.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (24 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: Amendments Nos. 87 to 94, inclusive, are alternatives to amendment No. 73. Amendments Nos. 73 and 87 to 94, inclusive, may be discussed together.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: I welcome the advisory council here today. It is very beneficial for us to see that the council is conducting a critical analysis of the progress of the country, but that it is doing so in a conservative fashion. It is important for us to remind people that is the council's job. Other organisations, particularly financial institutions, are adept at conducting aggressive financial...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: Does the professor think the budget for 2015 will see the end of austerity, if things go according to what we know at the moment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: That is something people here would like to hear. Then we would be back in clover, potentially, just before the next general election of course.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)

Arthur Spring: I am only kidding. I would like to move on now to forecasting. The professor has said that the models to which he has referred are quite simplistic. We are looking at different elements of modelling. The comments made in the debate generated here over the past two weeks about quantitative easing have been like a broken record. It has been said that austerity is not the only way and that...