Results 2,021-2,040 of 4,168 for speaker:Susan O'Keeffe
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: You can't speak for the members at all?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: But, as you stood and watched your own members and you could see what was going on, you were not obviously blind to what was happening in the market. Would you have an observation as to whether there was a closeness between some of your members, other perhaps people in the ... in the business who were not members ... were to that political party? Do you have any observation?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: And that's all you would say about that? There were members who were close? That's your-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: How, Mr. Parlon ... how useful was it to the CIF that you yourself had been a Minister for State at the Department of Finance and that you had also had responsibilities for the OPW? Because I think you said yourself in a ... in a ... an interview that ... ''I'm in and out of the Dáil every other day ... any chance I get everybody does it''.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: The ... it's a quote from the Irish Independent. I can give you the reference.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Did you have to interview for it, Mr. Parlon or-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Can I close by asking-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Can I close by asking ... particularly Mr. Parlon on why so much of your actual formal submission to the ... to the ... to this inquiry is actually drawn from the CIF's website rather than ... it doesn't appear ... it's not a reflection of your story or your involvement? It doesn't seem to me much of the content of it is actually available on your website. Why is that?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Sure, but we were hoping for your submission, Mr. Parlon, as opposed to, if you like, what we can get on the website, which, in fairness, is available to everybody, including ourselves. I'm just puzzled why you ... why there isn't, if you like, why there isn't more information what was going on, particularly in relation to the lines of inquiry.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Thank you.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Thank you, Chair. Mr. Davitt, you were an auctioneer yourself?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: And you're not practising anymore?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: I'm sorry, Chairman. You were but you are not anymore.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Okay and were you a valuer also?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Thank you. How many auctioneers in Ireland does your organisation represent?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: I mean how many of the practising auctioneers proportionately? Do you represent 2% or 52% or 92%?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Given what the Chair was talking about there in terms of fees and so on that were payable to auctioneers at the time of selling a house, do you accept or not that auctioneers played a part in driving up the prices of houses in that, in the period of time that we're discussing?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: And at the time an auctioneer would benefit directly if your fee was 2% and you got a higher price you'd get more money. it's as simple as that is it?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Do you know did banks and auctioneers work together in places perhaps to try to shift properties on or to move them or to entice developers to get involved with buying a particular site or a piece of land or anything? Was there collaboration and co-operation going on behind the scenes?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Yes.