Results 23,521-23,540 of 35,924 for speaker:Pearse Doherty
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Do you accept, bar the amendment that you officially tabled in your own name in the finance committee on 2004, which as Deputy McCreevy says, "The Deputy's amendment [which is your amendment] seeks to achieve an extension of the transitional arrangements for the existing schemes of capital allowances for hotels and holiday camps." and there were a number of other schemes as well which you-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: And in relation to ... From your understanding of ... and being on the finance committee at that time, the argument that you have put forward in relation to specific projects being captured and not being able to avail of these reliefs and obviously if you extend them, you extend them for not just the individual project that may be knowledgeable to you but other projects as well that-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Can I just finish the question, sorry. Do you also ... do you believe or not that was the same type of argument that was provided by Government in extending the tax reliefs in 2002, 2004 and 2006?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Go raibh maith agat. Mr. Kenny, when it was put to you by Deputy McGrath about that your Government advocated increase in expenditure, you replied saying, "Far from that." I would like you to refer to Vol. 2, page 78, and if you would indulge me, we'll actually look at some numbers, and I would ask you then to show me how you didn't advocate increased expenditure. What I want you to look...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: So when you sorted out all the waste and all the efficiency and all the competitiveness that you laid out in your manifesto, you still planned to increase current expenditure by €17 billion, do we accept or deny that fact?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Okay.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: That was just the first question. So you do accept that you were going to increase current expenditure by €17 billion. If we go to the bottom of that, because you were very critical of the Government in terms of your statement where it says ... where you say on page 5 of your statement but I'll just quote it - so, if we can leave the figures up on the screen - you say, "The average...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Okay, I'm not talking about the financial model, I'm talking about the numbers.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Well, if that was applied, what is happening at this point in time even to your policy, you wouldn't be able to implement that. But I want to go back to my core points here. The point I've made in looking at the figures, and let's talk about the figures Taoiseach, what Fine Gael was advocating at that time was to spend twice of what the growth rate was in the economy. The growth rate you...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Is that a "Yes" or a "No", just?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: I'm not adding a supplementary, I'm actually at the original question. Because the Taoiseach can read the entire 90-page manifesto if he wants, I want to focus into two lines and four numbers. And the question is very simple. Because the document doesn't speak. You're the Taoiseach and I want you to confirm, is the interpretation that I have of the document, is that the Fine Gael plan in...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Taoiseach, there's been a lot of-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Some of your previous comments have been put to you in term of this inquiry. I'll put another quote from you, where you called on people to stand by the Republic and assist the inquiry. Can I ask you to assist me in the question I have? Do you accept that the Fine Gael - and I'm not talking about your economic model-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Yes, I'll ask the question if you can get the Taoiseach to answer it.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Okay. So I want to ... Because I'm putting it to you that you've said that far from increasing expenditure, you did the opposite, right? So I want to make this point and can you answer, please, the point I'm making and if you need clarification in terms of the question I'm putting, maybe seek it. Do you accept from the four numbers that is on your screen from the Fine Gael election...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Taoiseach.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Go raibh maith agat a Chathaoirligh agus fáilte roimh an Tánaiste agus an Teachta chuig an coiste. Mr. Rabbitte can I start with yourself? From the Opposition viewpoint, how open to scrutiny was the Government decision-making process in your view?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Yes. I am not just talking about the guarantee, we know that the guarantee was one night, but in relation to issues around finances and the banking crisis.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Okay. And in your view in relation to, again this period and the financial crisis, do you believe that the Oireachtas ... was the Oireachtas sufficiently aware of the stakeholders with whom Government Ministers consulted in the pre-legislative stage of legislation around this period and how was that information made available, if it was?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Okay. It takes me on to the next question. In your opinion, were the Opposition parties, including your own party, adequately consulted, in particular, on issues that ... which may have been deemed ... as national importance? And I'm not looking to------