Results 8,101-8,120 of 26,043 for speaker:Kieran O'Donnell

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (2 Apr 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Does Ms Hunt believe nothing can be done to prevent a property bubble? Does she think it is a natural market cycle?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (2 Apr 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Earlier Ms Hunt made reference to the lack of proper independent data. When she compiles reports and bulletins, does she consult her colleagues in the CBRE organisation?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (2 Apr 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Does she consult them on how the property market operates and so forth?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (2 Apr 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: From Ms Hunt compiling her reports, when did she feel that the market was in a downward trajectory?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (2 Apr 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. John Moran of Jones Lang LaSalle spoke earlier about the Irish Glass Bottle Company site, which was one of the single largest transactions ever in this country, and development land at the time the sale was transacted. Ms Hunt's company was commissioned by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority in June 2005 to make an independent valuation of the site and the figure it came up with...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (2 Apr 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: CBRE gave the exact same valuation as the sale price.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (2 Apr 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Did this not feed back at the time into Ms Hunt's bimonthly report?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (2 Apr 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Ms Hunt has said she consulted all of the divisions. I am asking whether that transaction fed into her reporting?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Apr 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Thanks, Chairman. Welcome, Mr. McDonagh, Mr. Daly. Mr. McDonagh, just to, I suppose, to round off on the ... around the night of the guarantee. I just wanted to ... just to clarify just a few points, following up on my colleagues. You mentioned that you met Mr. Cowen, the former Taoiseach on the night. What was ... how did that arise or what was the context?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Apr 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Had ye any general discussion on the guarantee?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Apr 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: So it was just very specific discussion?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Apr 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: What time was this?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Apr 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: And was there any question as to why the Minister of Finance, Brian Lenihan at the time, wasn't present at that meeting?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Apr 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: And can I just go back. If you had been consulted on the night, what view would you have taken on the guarantee in relation to Anglo and Irish Nationwide?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Apr 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: And would ye have communicated that in previous discussions in consultation with the Department of Finance or the Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan or the Taoiseach at the time?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Apr 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: No, but you were brought in by way of ... you were brought in by the Department of Finance, in terms of discussions?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Apr 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Did ye at the time when you were asked to provide additional funding deposits to Anglo and Irish Nationwide, what view did the National Treasury Management Agency take?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Apr 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: When did that ... when did those discussions take place, where that particular viewpoint was arrived at by-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Apr 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: So at the end of ... sorry, before the guarantee, in the previous ten days maybe, you would have been approached by ... was that by the Central Bank or who were you approached by in terms-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Apr 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: And who did ye ... and two questions: who did you communicate that viewpoint to? And why did ye express that viewpoint, that ye would not - on a prudence basis - ye would not extend additional funding deposits to Anglo or Irish Nationwide?