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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (4 Mar 2015)

Pearse Doherty: The record shows that Anglo Irish Bank required a large portion of the total amount. Dr. Bacon's report came out on 20 March 2009, just a number of months after the guarantee was brought in. Paragraph 26 deals with revising the credit guarantee. It states:A restructuring of the guarantee consistent with the introduction of the NAMA initiative should be seen as an integral element of a...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (4 Mar 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Why does Dr. Bacon suggest that a restructuring of the guarantee consistent with the introduction of the NAMA initiative should be seen as an integral element of a comprehensive strategy?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (4 Mar 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Did Dr. Bacon put something into this paragraph that he knew could never be done?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (4 Mar 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Paragraph 29 asks a number of questions on bond issuance relating to the recapitalisation of the banks. Dr. Bacon states:Another key factor relates to the underlying public finance position and current efforts towards stabilising the deficit which is widening beyond expectations. Then there is the question of the impact of such expansion on the debt and the capacity to service the debt....

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (4 Mar 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Does Dr. Bacon still believe Ireland had the ability to take on additional debt at that time, in the context of bank recapitalisation and a report that suggests that the banks were going to lose €34 billion on property loans?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (4 Mar 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Tá fáilte romhat go dtí an coiste. Professor Ahearne signalled a series of warnings in the period leading up to the crisis. How convinced was he that he was correct? Perhaps he could express his answer in simple percentage terms.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (4 Mar 2015)

Pearse Doherty: With regard to Anglo Irish Bank, on 4 January 2009, the Sunday Independentpublished the following comment from Professor Ahearne:The markets quite clearly don't believe in the future of Anglo, and yet the Government is saying it's too important to let go. I'm not convinced by this. Will Professor Ahearne outline the reasons he was not convinced of the Government's view that Anglo Irish...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (4 Mar 2015)

Pearse Doherty: On Anglo Irish Bank, Professor Ahearne described how he arrived at his assessment that there would be a hard landing. He did not have access to the internal data available to the banks, which the Central Bank may also have had. If he had been aware of the information provided in the Nyberg report, which shows that 50% of Anglo Irish Bank's loan book was held by 20 individuals, what types of...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (4 Mar 2015)

Pearse Doherty: A number of names have been mentioned today, including those of Professor Ahearne, Mr. David McWilliams and Professor Morgan Kelly. Does Professor Ahearne share the view that there were only a number of contrarian voices, or was the evidence wider? Will he comment on the note that UBS issued to its investors in January 2008 in which it advised them to sell shares in Anglo Irish Bank and...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (4 Mar 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Professor Ahearne noted in response to Senator MacSharry that in the period leading up to the 2007 election none of the parties recommended policies to stop the property bubble. He also stated that booms were very popular and that no party would have been elected it if had recommended policies to stop the property bubble. Will Professor Ahearne clarify the matter by indicating which parties...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Civil Marriages Data (5 Mar 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 46. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in relation to the notification requirements for marriage and the fee for registering intent of marriage, which was increased from €150 to €200 in 2013, if she will provide details of the number of couples, per county, in tabular form, who have registered their intention to get married with the State since this increase; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Registration of Marriages (5 Mar 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 217. To ask the Minister for Health in relation to the notification requirements for marriage and the fee for registering intent of marriage which was increased from €150 to €200 in 2013, if he will  provide details of the total sum of money which this fee has raised since its introduction; if he will provide details of the way this money is utilised by the State; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (5 Mar 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the new system of allocating resource hours, making it an equitable system for children with Down syndrome, will be introduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9752/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (5 Mar 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 269. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide, in tabular form, details of the pass and fail percentage rates for each national car test centre in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9753/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Funding (10 Mar 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 196. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the full €800 million of Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland funding has not been allocated; and when the remaining €400 million will be allocated. [10031/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Data (10 Mar 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 218. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies engaged in contract manufacturing in a way that may distort economic data; and if he will provide the names of these companies. [10397/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Exports Data (10 Mar 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 219. To ask the Minister for Finance the way excluding the top five exporting companie, from the data would affect Ireland's export figures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10398/15]

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (10 Mar 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome Mr. Carswell. I will begin with his previous book Something Rotten: Irish Banking Scandals. I have referenced it before in the inquiry. He deals with the DIRT scandal on page 151 and he says, "The controversy revealed that in 1980s and 1990s Ireland there existed a culture of State and bank sponsored tax evasion." Could he speak to this for the committee and outline what he...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (10 Mar 2015)

Pearse Doherty: If I can bring Mr. Carswell forward two decades in relation to the relationships that he mentioned. How did the cosy relationships that he mentioned in terms of politicians, developers, bankers and regulators, manifest themselves? How did it work?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (10 Mar 2015)

Pearse Doherty: In his opening statement Mr. Carswell said, "These cosy relationships would prove extremely costly," and he went on to talk about the cost of the bank bailout. Where does he put the relationships in terms of the mix that caused the State to absorb €64 billion of banking costs?