Results 221-240 of 8,196 for speaker:Alice-Mary Higgins
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: At any point in the past few years there is a question as to whether the prospectus assessing risks and offering issues of bonds from Israel, in asking that its bonds be carried, included assessments of the risks in terms of geopolitical risk, which Mr. Makhlouf mentioned we should all be thinking about. It seems to be a clear area. Leave aside the risks in terms of international law,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I am explicitly going into the parameters, with respect.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Sometimes the three words we are told are, "Don't go here", where we are told these are the three parameters. Let us go within them. I am explicitly speaking to the powers and responsibilities that, as a competent authority, the Central Bank had and has. I am not looking at what the Central Bank can do now solely. It would useful, in the analysis, to look to and examine the question as...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Is there a proper examination of human rights, international law and geopolitical risks in answering the request - and it is a request - for Ireland through the Central Bank to facilitate the sale of Israeli state bonds? Was the information examined? Was it appropriately examined? These are clear powers. If the information fell short, was further information sought? If not, why was...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I want to have a set of six pieces, because I know the response will be, "We will review it."
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: With respect, Chair, I want to be clear on it, others have-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: With respect Chair, I have also listened to others and I am within my timeframe.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I have a whole separate set of questions on a different issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: What I need to do-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Apologies, Chair. I need to finish this set of questions because if we are going to receive-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The time given to other speakers was 20 minutes, with respect.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: These questions are really clear because I do not want the witnesses to simply go away and see what they can do. We need an examination of the process to date that goes through all of those factors I have said-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: No, this is a request-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Excuse me, Chair, with respect.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I am within my 20 minute period.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I have two-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I will point out two other areas we need a response on because I knew the response would be that we will have a written response. This is something that needs a public response so we request the response be given very soon. There are two other pieces. I have asked Mr. Makhlouf to examine the process so far but I also ask him to examine under paragraph 40 of the regulation if it is the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I will go to my second point, which is the second area I would like to discuss. A lot of discussion has taken place with regard to the fiscal rules and fiscal policy. Ireland is about to submit a new five-year net expenditure plan to the European Commission later this month. This is very significant, of course, and it replaces, effectively, the semester process. This will be a five-year...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It does seem to be within the ambit because one of the key elements in it risk, which Mr. Makhlouf talked about. A lot of opinion is being given on fiscal policy and investment strategy, some of which would be useful to have the underpinning, as others pointed out. For example, the assumption of multiple investors benefiting, when we see what has happened with commercial property. Debt...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: When we consider the sustainability of risk with regard to debt sustainability, risk is core to that. When we look at debt sustainability, is it the view that there is a need for an assessment of climate risk and potentially looking to the area of preventative spending, namely, the need to spend now in order to avoid significant cost that may be of damage to the Exchequer down the line as a...