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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: In 2006 Mr. Nava would have said his confidence was at three.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: In the drafting of the legislation and the preparation of those mechanisms, how many times, if at all, did Mr. Nava, his colleagues and his team speak with Professor Black, or listen to or appreciate the argument he has put forward about the way banks and bankers have behaved and what regulation he believes would be a game changer?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: I do not mean here this morning, I mean in Mr. Nava's work in recent years.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Did that include Professor Black?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Probably not.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Given his criticism of the system previously, and his criticism of the current system, would it be useful for Mr. Nava and his colleagues to engage with Professor Black, at least to hear what he might have to say, not only at our hearing but in a broader context, because he is very specific that he does not have faith either in the system that was there or the system that is here now?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: It was Mr. Nava's mechanism that changed supervisory responsibility for the 120 largest banking groups. If I understand it correctly from his statement, this supervision is now with the European Central Bank.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: What is the benefit of giving the 120 larger banks to the European Central Bank and setting the others in a separate place? Does that not give us more belief in the idea of banks being too big to fail and that they need extra special help, supervision or status?

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: I agree with Senator Sean Barrett and commend the work done by the various journalists in a truly international collaboration which showed the strength of joining together the forces of investigative journalism to allow monumental work to be undertaken. As someone who worked for "Panorama", I know exactly the kind of commitment that takes, particularly in taking on large organisations,...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Professor FitzGerald said he had not been consulted about the bank guarantee. Does he mean formally nor informally? Did nobody think he might have something useful to say?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: And did anybody consult Professor FitzGerald in the weeks leading up to it?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: O01000 type: 1 --> Nobody thought of it. Notwithstanding the Chairman's acknowledgement of Professor FitzGerald's taking responsibility for what happened, did he consider resigning?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Why?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: When Professor Honohan was here, I asked him why, despite the failings and lack of management and oversight at the Central Bank during the time, nobody had resigned or had been asked to resign from the Central Bank. In his reply, he said various things had changed, but that he had organised his organisation to be effective and functional and was not sure he should have expressed a view on...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Despite the level of work Professor FitzGerald did, particularly in 2005, he said people were not listening and he was concerned about it. Why does he think people were not listening and the Government did not act, given the seriousness of what he was saying and his personal reputation as somebody who would have known what he was talking about?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Are we reduced to that?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Earlier, Professor FitzGerald talked about when he was in Warsaw and said he had written to the Financial Regulator on foot of his concern about developers potentially leveraging funding from a bank in Poland as well as banks here. Did he do that personally or on behalf of the ESRI? What made him suddenly think to do it at that moment, given that it was the realm of developers and bank...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Professor FitzGerald told the Chairman the Financial Regulator's response was unsatisfactory. Did the Financial Regulator's office not reply?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Did Professor FitzGerald pursue that?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Would Professor FitzGerald have, on any other occasion, been as concerned as he was on that occasion, when he actually put pen to paper, so to speak? Would he have done that before?