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

Sean Barrett: When Dr. Bacon was engaged in work on this subject in the 1998-2000 period, were things like loan-to-value or loan-to-income part of his deliberations or did he concern himself mostly with supply-side issues?

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

Sean Barrett: What about loan-to-value?

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

Sean Barrett: The graph of house prices shows that events arising from Dr. Bacon's report caused the market to go down but then we just resumed and it kept on increasing at the same rate until the collapse.

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

Sean Barrett: Were there financial forces and practices, such as weak regulation, which meant that whatever what we did the 2008 collapse was inevitable?

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

Sean Barrett: Can Dr. Bacon expand?

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

Sean Barrett: What should the Central Bank have been doing at that period?

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

Sean Barrett: Given where we are now, what should the Bacon report No. 4 contain?

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

Sean Barrett: I welcome Professor Ahearne. Will he refresh my memory in regard to his time in the Minister's office? When did he join and when did he leave?

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

Sean Barrett: When was the hard landing seminar in the Central Bank held?

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

Sean Barrett: Who attended the seminar and what was the reaction when the professor gave the "hard landing" finding?

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

Sean Barrett: The finding in the Wright report is that there was far too little economic expertise around. He estimated that approximately only 7% of senior people in the Department of Finance had qualifications at master's level or above. He compared that to 60% in Canada and 40% in the Netherlands. Did Professor Ahearne find that a problem when he went to work in the Department in March 2009?

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

Sean Barrett: Did we understand the full implications of euro membership?

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

Sean Barrett: Did we understand the implications of the savings and loans collapse in the United States, given what happened to building societies and financial institutions here?

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

Sean Barrett: Did economists working in banks ever relay any fears to Professor Ahearne that the bank they were working in might go down the tubes? Did they see it coming or discuss it?

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2015)

Sean Barrett: In view of the concern expressed on both sides of the House on the withdrawal of certain bus services from rural areas, I call for a debate on rural transport. There are many options. The school bus service ends soon after 9 a.m. each morning. A total of 114,000 children travel on the service every day, amounting to 42 million trips per year on 6,000 routes. There is an independent bus...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Sean Barrett: I welcome Mr. McWilliams, with whom I have had many previous meetings on these topics. During what years was Mr. McWilliams at the Central Bank?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Sean Barrett: In what section was Mr. McWilliams?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Sean Barrett: Were issues of the prudential regulation of banks discussed when Mr. McWilliams's group got together in the Central Bank?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Sean Barrett: We were asking about the prudential regulation of banks. Did Mr. McWilliams ever come across the people who were in charge of that?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Sean Barrett: There was criticism in the Honohan report of the fact that approximately 15 out of 1,200 staff were working on prudential regulation of banks.