Results 8,601-8,620 of 26,043 for speaker:Kieran O'Donnell
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (7 May 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Okay, thank you. Can I ... I accept that but it's just a point. Can I just ... a very quick question. You made reference to it earlier but I want to ask all three, Mr. McLaughlin. If the liquidity crisis hadn't been as severe as it was, where would Ireland's banking sector have ended up? And build into that, you speak about soft landing, right? You might just tell us-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (7 May 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Well, they are interrelated. Where would it have gone?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (7 May 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: And do you believe if it hadn't happened, that the State would have had to put money into ... taxpayers' money into the Irish banks?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (7 May 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Okay. Mr. Beggs?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (7 May 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. McArdle. And define what you mean by soft landing?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (7 May 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: You are becoming a contrarian, Mr. McArdle -----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (7 May 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Do you believe the taxpayer would still have been putting into the Irish banks?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (7 May 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: And Mr. Beggs, do you think the taxpayer would have been putting money into the Irish banks?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Thank you, Chairman. I welcome Mr. Parlon and Mr. Kelleher. Do you have any comment to make on the fact that the ghost estates appear to be concentrated very much with low areas ... areas with low population densities in, we'll say, Longford, Leitrim and Roscommon ... and a survey done by ... a report done by the National Institute for Regional and Social Analysis and NUI Maynooth in 2010...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: The ... I think they are interrelated.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: In, we'll say, looking at the tax incentives ... and, Mr. Parlon, you were Minister for State in the Department for Finance with responsibility for the OPW between '02 and '07 and, Mr. Kelleher, during that period you would have been director general of the Construction Industry Federation. And over that time period in ... in December 2002 ... the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Chairman, I've already dealt with that.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Why?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Even though, Mr. Kelleher, during that time period from '04 to '08 the level of house completions were peaking at incredible rates and, clearly, were-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: And, Mr. Parlon-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: So your members were looking for this?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: A minute of Mr. Parlon's time there please ... the question really was were member of your Construction Industry Federation, namely, developers, lobbying the CIF to look for the extension of the deadline dates for these tax incentives?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: I suppose I am conscious, Mr. Kelleher, in the limited time I want to hear Mr. Parlon-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Parlon, in your time as Minister for State in the Department of Finance and the OPW, were you lobbied by the CIF and Mr. Kelleher for the extension of these timelines from up ... literally being extended for a four-year period from the end of December '04 right up to July '08 for all these tax incentive schemes that kept the construction sector going? Were you lobbied by the CIF and what...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Were you lobbied by anyone on these-----