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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)

Sean Barrett: Mr. Buti said he did not shy away from a critical view of Irish fiscal policy making. Did he shy away from a critical view of Irish monetary policy-making?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)

Sean Barrett: I thank Mr. Buti.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)

Sean Barrett: I welcome Dr. Donovan. Does he think the design faults in the euro played a part? Does he think we were aware of that role? How did a very conservative banking system give the IMF the biggest bust it ever had?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)

Sean Barrett: You say the IMF had no inkling of the indecisiveness and lack of firm engagement underlining the detailed interaction between the Financial Regulator and key financial institutions, problems that you and Professor Honohan discovered only later. Would it have been better if we had had a separate Financial Regulator? The IMF would then have been able to say "We met an institution that was not...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)

Sean Barrett: Ireland and Canada, when they were sitting together at the IMF, obviously never discussed banking, because Canada did not have a banking crisis. Did we learn anything from sitting with the Canadians at the IMF?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)

Sean Barrett: Finally, I ask Dr. Donovan whether he sees a parallel between two instances. He said that dialogue between the IMF and the Irish authorities did not take place in 2008, and there seemed to be a similar breakdown in communication, according to the Honohan report, when the Central Bank disappeared from the picture in early September and did not really come back in until the letter from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)

Sean Barrett: We need hard copies because the verbal contributions made this week and last week are not good enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)

Sean Barrett: We should have them now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)

Sean Barrett: This is a major issue and producing no documents last week or today is not good enough. I assure the committee that there is a strong economic tradition against this kind of takeover and anti-competitive merger. There are articles on it in the Treaty of Rome and, as such, we have to hear the other side. I have heard a great deal of wishful thinking from the advocates of the takeover and it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)

Sean Barrett: How are we supposed to interpret the assertion that Stobart Air is committed to a place when it is six weeks and one day since it withdrew from it? That does not add up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)

Sean Barrett: On 28 November 2014 the Irish Independentstated that under Mr. Brogan's leadership, Stobart Air had also expanded its fleet, with Aer Lingus providing some of the financial backing for new aircraft purchases. Does that mean that Mr. Brogan cannot say anything different from what he has said today? Aer Lingus finances his fleet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)

Sean Barrett: Is the Irish Independentarticle wrong?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)

Sean Barrett: Aer Lingus provided some of the financial backing for Stobart Air's new aircraft purchases.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)

Sean Barrett: There is a quote from the Scottish Government to the effect that there has been an historical imbalance in UK aviation policy that has held back Scottish airports and the development of direct international links. British Airways is the company that did this and Aer Lingus is inviting it in as its partner in Ireland. It is not that company's record in Scotland according to the Government...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)

Sean Barrett: We would appreciate receiving the documents on which the case was made to convince their Lordships in the UK courts that they were being prevented from selling the slots in the context of optimising the route network and the case Mr. Walsh is making here. It seems they are two completely different cases. We will have to evaluate all aspects of this matter. The contradictions on the slots...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Aer Lingus and Stobart Air (17 Feb 2015)

Sean Barrett: It is like the evidence at the banking inquiry which will be the next one. It seems to be short on verdicts, numbers, documents and so forth.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)

Sean Barrett: Those advocating the takeover of Aer Lingus by British Airways have appeared at the Joint Committee on Transport and Communications. I must inform the House that not one route resulted from that PR performance. All they want to do is take over an existing airline. What is the performance of British Airways from Manchester, Birmingham, Belfast, Glasgow and Edinburgh on the North Atlantic?...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)

Sean Barrett: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)

Sean Barrett: Hear, hear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)

Sean Barrett: I welcome Mr. Walsh and Mr. Griffin. Mr. Walsh said that Ireland is a great market. I would say, "Please come in, but do not take over an existing producer." If it is a great market, IAG can come to any airport in Ireland that it wishes to. We will be delighted to see them. My concern is that an existing producer will be removed. Deputy O'Donovan spoke about the performance of...