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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking and Financial Regulation: Discussion with Mr. Jonathan Sugarman (13 Apr 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Sugarman might paraphrase it again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking and Financial Regulation: Discussion with Mr. Jonathan Sugarman (13 Apr 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: Was there any follow-up with the Central Bank?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking and Financial Regulation: Discussion with Mr. Jonathan Sugarman (13 Apr 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: Did Mr. Sugarman not think he should follow up with the Central Bank?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking and Financial Regulation: Discussion with Mr. Jonathan Sugarman (13 Apr 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: I thank Mr. Sugarman.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking and Financial Regulation: Discussion with Mr. Jonathan Sugarman (13 Apr 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: I wish to ask about UniCredit's 20% breach of the liquidity limit. Was 1% the accepted norm or was it less than 1%?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking and Financial Regulation: Discussion with Mr. Jonathan Sugarman (13 Apr 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: Okay. How much liquidity would UniCredit have been short due to that 20% breach? Can the witness quantify-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking and Financial Regulation: Discussion with Mr. Jonathan Sugarman (13 Apr 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: Would that have arisen due to short-term borrowing for long-term loans? Was it an overnight-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking and Financial Regulation: Discussion with Mr. Jonathan Sugarman (13 Apr 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: Could the bank have had access to a credit line from the Central Bank? Was there a credit line that the bank could have had access to?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking and Financial Regulation: Discussion with Mr. Jonathan Sugarman (13 Apr 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: Was that the case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking and Financial Regulation: Discussion with Mr. Jonathan Sugarman (13 Apr 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: What does the witness mean that UniCredit-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking and Financial Regulation: Discussion with Mr. Jonathan Sugarman (13 Apr 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: But the witness's understanding at the time of the 20% breach was that the parent company ought to have been made aware by the CEO.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking and Financial Regulation: Discussion with Mr. Jonathan Sugarman (13 Apr 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: The witness would have had no role to make them aware of that. It was to come from the CEO.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking and Financial Regulation: Discussion with Mr. Jonathan Sugarman (13 Apr 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: Finally, at that point with that level of breaches, was there any question of UniCredit - the entity itself in Ireland - being at a stage where it could have gone under?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Improving Investment Opportunities in the Wider Economy: Discussion (4 May 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: I want to welcome Mr. Andrew McDowell, who I know well, and wish him well in his new role. I welcome Mr. Ashmore, Mr. Murphy and Ms Mahon. I do not want to dwell on it but I wish to return to the issue of the investment plan for Europe, or the Juncker plan, in the Irish context. In Mr. McDowell's opinion, what percentage of GDP should an economy spend on capital investment for it to be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Improving Investment Opportunities in the Wider Economy: Discussion (4 May 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: With his previous knowledge from his role with Government as economic adviser, could Mr. McDowell put an empirical figure on the level of additional capital investment that could be made in Ireland - not off-balance sheet, but in terms of strictly Government spending - that is not breaching the EU fiscal rules? Has he an idea of the level of scope for an increase in capital spending that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Improving Investment Opportunities in the Wider Economy: Discussion (4 May 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: I will give a specific example. I am based in Limerick city. The single biggest project on our side of the country on the western seaboard is the M20, which is the Cork to Limerick motorway. The mid-term capital review is taking place. Public consultations were accepted up to last Sunday, 30 April. I expect that many submissions have been made on the M20. The witnesses are probably...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Improving Investment Opportunities in the Wider Economy: Discussion (4 May 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: It is hands across the wall. We do it with Munster rugby so let us do it as well by bringing the EIB in as a Munster supporter. There is an open invitation to Thomond Park at the weekend, when we play Connacht.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Improving Investment Opportunities in the Wider Economy: Discussion (4 May 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: I want to know the criteria of assessment for such a project.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Improving Investment Opportunities in the Wider Economy: Discussion (4 May 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: It is a 50% limit.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Improving Investment Opportunities in the Wider Economy: Discussion (4 May 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is if it is pure State funding.